Quick Tips: How To Hide Thread Tails

There are different times when you might find it necessary to hide your thread tails, such as a very visible line of top stitching like this line that I've done around the upper edge of my bag. Now I don't like to use the machine's back stitch function when I'm doing something really visible like this because sometimes that thread can then sort of bunch up and create an unsightly knot. So instead I don't back stitch and I manually tie those threads off and then I'll show you how to hide them. So here are all of my threads. And so I stopped stitching right where I began and I pulled on those thread tails to get the needle threads and the bobbin threads all to the wrong side and I'm just going to tie those off manually just tie a couple of knots.

Just tying all of those thread ends together, so when you're doing this, make sure you leave long thread tails so that you have. Room to do this. So I'm tying two knots. And then we need a. Hand sewing needle.

And I'm going to thread all of these thread ends through my hand sewing needle, and you can do them one at a time, you can do two at a time, but I'm going to Do them all At once and that's why I'm using my. My little helper here to thread all of my. Tas Through the eye So once we get all of the thread ends through the eye of this needle. We're going to insert the needle because if you so our our threads are they're tied off, but if we clipped them off now we would get little thread ends poking out and if you cut too close to the knot it compromises the knot. So to hide these and make it completely.

Invisible. I'm going to insert my needle. In between the fabric layers, right where that knot is. And I'm going to push it through and it doesn't matter where I come out. I'm just pulling those thread ends.

And then I'm going to tug gently. And I'm going to cut them off right. Near the fabric and that way once I cut those off those thread ends then relax and now they're between the layers of fabric so I don't have any cut ends showing my knot is still secure and I don't have any lumps of thread from that machine back stitch. And it is nice and beautiful and the same technique applies when you are hand sewing so I had this opening in my teddy bear on the backside for when I turned everything right side out. And then I've hand sewn that with my slip stitch, so that is all stitched and I've already tied off my knot.

So it's the same thing here. If you cut off your thread, you'll have visible thread ends. So same idea, we're just going to tuck that needle back in right where we finished sewing. Pull it through to somewhere else. Give it a gentle tug.

So that when you cut it, those thread ends relax and your thread tails have disappeared and they are completely invisible.