how to make a quilter’s knot for hand stitching

Sometimes little techniques for hand sewing or stitching come into your life just as you need them. Making a quilter’s knot was just that, for me. It’s perfect, of course, for when you’re hand quilting your beautiful improv quilts. But I use it for a lot of my slow hand stitched pieces as well, to hide the knots inside the layers, as well as changing threads without having a stitch space on the back.

This know sometimes takes a little bit of practice to learn, but once you’ve got it you’ll probably remember it and use it for all your sewing from now on.

Quilter’s knots are used as they have a long tail, which means it takes a while for the thread to fray inside your quilt layers, when you wash it. This gives your quilt longevity in the quilting.

I teach this special stitch at my workshops as as my online courses, but I thought it would be good to share it here as well, so you can start learning now for your hand stitch work. This is a small segment of the whole video that you’ll find inside my free online course. You can learn how to needle your thread (which sounds strange, but is a different way of threading your needle), and make a sweet little case for to start your sewing journey. Or making a gift for someone to encourage them on their hand stitching journey.