Nowadays most patterns are designed with 1/4" seams in mind, so to get the intended result we have to make the 1/4" seam or risk losing tips of angles. If there are no angles in your design, it makes no difference what seam you use. Just take all this into consideration when you plan how big you want your quilt to end up, because each seam takes up 2-times whatever your seam width is.
Originally Posted by Fancy Nancy
hear a lot about "quilt police". just wondering, who actually makes the quilting "rules". I have a lot of books on quilting by various authors and there are sometimes different methods given. it bugs me b/c when our ancestors made quilts - the pioneer women etc, they didn't appear to follow "rules" and we never say they did it wrong. so who actually has the right to suddenly make rules on how things have to be done. is their a quilting law book or something? if i want all my seams to be 1/3" rather than 1/4" what does it matter? as long as all the seams are the same size? maybe it just the baby boomer in me but i sometimes resent having to follow all the "rules" that are made by so called quilting experts.