Sir Snips’ Daily Snippet 🦝🪡
Give your seams an opening act.
When chain piecing, sew a few stitches across a small folded fabric scrap—called a leader—before feeding in your first pair of quilt pieces. At the end of the chain, stitch onto another scrap called an ender and leave it under the presser foot; it can become your leader next time. Leaders help prevent thread nests, keep the first fabric corner from being pulled into the needle hole, and save thread.
Even your seams deserve a warm-up act. Sir Snips refuses to go on cold. 😉
Do you keep a trusty leader scrap by the machine—or recruit a new one every time?
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Published October 30, 2026.