Quilting - How to tie a quilt using the 'Hidden Tie' or 'International Stitch'

Hi , my name is Sarah and I'm going to just demonstrate how to do the international stitch or the hidden tie .

This is what it looks like on a finished quilt .

As you can see the front and the back look the same and you don't have the strings sticking out .

Here's an another example .

This is a great stitch for baby quilts or even for large quilts that go on your bed .

If you don't want those , um , the yarn sticking out , you can use baby yarn or you can use crochet that threads .

So I'm going to show you how to do that on this sock monkey quilt first .

You're gonna need to start with your sandwich .

So you'll have your backing , your batting and your top with pins in them .

Next , you will need a long needle and for my thread , I think it's about 4 ft long .

Um , and then double would be 8 ft .

So it's in half .

You do not put a knot on the end and you want your end to be even you start with , I'm gonna do my first stitch right there in the corner .

So you come from outside , you can put your do this on a table or in quilting frames and you put your hand underneath to make sure that your thread is not going to be seen on the back .

So you come up , pull your thread through .

Now , don't pull it too fast because you want that to be just under the hole .

So for your first stitch , you might want to make sure that you're kind of holding that thread next , you're going to go down all the way through to the back .

So your needle will poke through and you'll feel it with your other hand and then you're going to come up through .

So that'll make the stitch on the visible on the back .

Then you pull this through .

This is where you wanna feel for your thread and hold on to it for this first stitch .

Next , you'll come back to the beginning of your stitch and then you're gonna go through your batting to your next stitch .

So you're not gonna wanna want to be able to feel the thread on the back side .

So you're gonna go down and through and you can feel your finger guiding the needle underneath the fabric .

You come up when you're ready for your next stitch .

So the , so this thread is actually in between your layers of fabric , it's in your body , you pull that tight and there you have a stitch and you're ready to do it again .

So the back there's our little stitch on the back .

So then you repeat it by coming down and up .

Now , remember you can feel the needle on the backside for this part because you went all the way through .

Now you're gonna come back to the beginning and then you're gonna go through the middle of your batting .

So you don't wanna fill the thread on the back side of your quilt .

So then you go up again and again , you have enough .