Originally Posted by
lfletcher
This surprised me. I am also a LAQ and if you need to SID, the seams are better pressed to one side. If you press them open, then the SID is just sewing across thread & not fabric on the top. If you are doing an overall, it probably doesn't matter. I actually have never had a problem with needles breaking.
I'm a LAQ also and if you press seams open there is no ditch so you can't do SID at all.
As a piecer, I would think pressing seams to the side would make a stronger seam. While machine stitching is stronger than hand stitching, you would still have strain on the seams(especially with a bed quilt) where thread breakage could happen over time IMHO.
If you press your seams open wouldn't it be easier if you made wider seams? Of course, you would lose inches overall in your project.