Engligh Paper Piecing Quick Tip - Knicker Knot Technique
Sue Daley teaches us how to start and stop our threads in English Paper Piecing using the Knicker Knot technique.
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Sue Daley
Sue’s love of Patchwork began in 1980 when she was expecting her first child. Just a few years later most of her days were filled with designing and teaching across Australia and all over the world. She is the author of multiple books including It's a Hexagon Kind of Christmas, Hexagons from the Guest House, Playing With Paper, A Road Less Travelled, and New English Paper Piecing.
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Sue Daley teaches us how to start and stop our threads in English Paper Piecing using the Knicker Knot technique.
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MSQC: English Paper Piecing Quick Tip: Knicker Knot Technique 2:14 Jenny: Hi everybody, it’s Jenny. And I am here in the studio with Sue Daley. We filmed an awesome tutorial on English Paper Piecing. And Sue does something when she starts and stops her threads called the Knicker Knot which we are going to show you in detail right now. Sue: Ok, thanks Jenny. So when I start my English piecing I start with a knicker knot. And then when I finish. So before when you’re about to cut thread to start a new thread I would work with another knicker knot. And that, that locks everything off so it won’t come undone. Jenny: So did you make up the knicker knot or? Sue: I actually Jenny: Is this a real thing or is this just your name? Sue: I think it’s actually called a lingerie knot and a lady today told me she thought it was a square knot. But I call it a knicker knot because it’s just fun. And you know Jenny: Oh ok. Sue: What’s life, if it’s not fun. Jenny: And she’s, she is fun so let’s see this knicker knot. Sue: Ok so we’re going to come in and we’re going to take a stitch into our work. And we have a thread at the front Jenny: Ok your needle is halfway through. Sue: So there you go into your work like that, don’t pull it all the way through. So we have a thread here at the front and we have our threads coming out of the eye of the needle at the back. And this thread at the front is going to come under to the left and take it to the back. And then you’ll take these two that come out of the eye of the needle, they’ll come forward and go under to the right, take it to the back. And then pull it through and then you’ll have a little figure eight knot which is probably very difficult for you to see right now. Jenny: You know what I’m going to move this stuff because I think they might be able to see it a bit better without all that stuff. Sue: You’ll have like a little figure eight knot there. Now if you don’t have that knot it means you’ve wrapped your threads in the same direction. So you need to make sure you have that little knot and it locks it off. Jenny: Ok do it one more time. Sue: Yep. No problem, I’ll just get my fingers in there. So put your needle in and leave it in your work. Take the thread at the front, take it under to the left and to the back. And you take these threads, bring them forward under to the right to the back. Jenny: Well there you’ve got it ladies and gents, the knicker knot. So we’ll see you later.
