View Single Post
Old 04-18-2009, 07:43 AM
  #1  
shaverg
Super Member
 
shaverg's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1,981
Default

I am just curious. I normally press my seams to one side. But when I started quilting in 1983 and was hand piecing. I was taught to press seams open, which definitely made hand quilting easier.

I know this is preference. But would just like some feed back. As a handquilter I am thinking about going against most conventional wisdom and start to press them open again and only to the side when it is a machine quilted piece.

Most info I see says press to one side makes seams stronger. But occasionally I do see info that mentions pressing open.

Those that press open have you had problems?
shaverg is offline