Originally Posted by
bearisgray
in my opinion, a quilt that was properly constructed does not need to be blocked to lay properly.
Even the most meticulously constructed quilt can be distorted in the quilting process. Machine quilting distorts more than hand quilting and longarm quilting distorts more than DSM quilting. It is just the nature of fabric to want to stretch distort or contract when being manipulated by the quilting process. Every quilt I make is perfectly square when it goes on the rack but I have yet to have a quilt come off the rack that is exactly the same measurements it was before quilting. It may only be off fractions of an inch, but it is different.