I am a serger. It really takes very little time...and if you are dealing with yardage (like backings etc) the 30 seconds it takes to serge WAAAY out weights the time it would take me to press 3+ yards. I also wash after 2 incidents with fabrics that bled and Bled and BLED after I made a quilt with them. Washing is easy for me after all that heart ache. Ya do what ya need to do!