My Mom first showed me how to make a quilt top, she never had time to quilt them and finish them up. She didn't even iron, or press the seams. This was over 47 years ago. As I bought quilting magazines and books I learned about pressing but, they did not cover setting the seams. I'm not saying all, just the ones I had. A lot of the ways things are done now are different than how they were done early on.