Thank you. Now how do you press the seams...open or to the side?[/quote]
To the side. Since you are staggering seams anyway in a bargello, you can press them all in the same direction. I just find pressing to one side a whole lot easier than trying to press seams open, looks better too if you happen to have any shadowing in the blocks. When it is quilted, the shadowing goes away anyhow.[/quote]
I heard that pressing the seams to the side strengthens the seam. Quilts take a lot more tugging and pulling than clothes, which always have pressed open seams.