How to Complete the End Knot for Appliqué

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JEANETTE WHITE: Hi. I'm Jeanette White for Expert Village and Piper's Quilts & Comforts in Salt Lake City, Utah in Sugarhouse. And today, we are doing an ending knot. Now, this ending knot gets used in hand applique, but it is also an ending knot you can use in embroidery or any hand stitching that you're doing. You can see here, we're going to say that I'm finished with this segment here so I'll stab my background fabric. I will come to the backside, and then I'm going to take a little tiny stitch, only picking up one or two threads of the weave of the fabric. Now, I'm going to pick out one more time in exactly the same spot and you will see a loop that is being formed there. I'm going to go through that loop and I'm going to pull until I've almost pulled it all the way through but not quite. And now, you'll see another loop formed right here, and I'm going to go through that loop. So it's kind of a [SOUNDS LIKE] loop-d-loop. And that's a little tiny knot that will never come undone. Let's do it one more time. I'm going to take a little tiny stitch right there, and I'm going to go through that loop. Now, if you've got a twist in it, get the twist out or enter it right at the base so that you're not picking it up with a twist in it because that's going to cause you some grief. So let me just grab this right here. Oops, this is being pesky. There we go. And I've gone through that loop, and then here is a second loop that's almost as I'm pulling this through and I'm going to go through that one and then pull it all the way down to the end. Last thing is you're going to bury this tail in between the two layers because we want our back to be neat and we don't want threads that are flying free because they could show through the fabric if it was a light-colored one. And you wouldn't realize it until you're ready to quilt your quilt, and then it's hard to do anything about it. This is really a fun method of applique, and this is a great ending knot for any handwork that you're doing.

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