Originally Posted by grma33
I had never heard of no seam down the middle either until my neighbor who is a professional seamstress came to help me with backing and told me this.
The reason is too much stress on the one seam.
You need to use 3 panels if its a big quilt.
I don`t worry about this for baby or lap.
Hope this explains it.
Gale
I guess I still don't see it if one is having enough quilting done to more than tack the top to the back. I do know that my method of flat fell seams causes too much bulk along the seam area so have changed that unless I am hand quilting,