Does this mean you quilt your own projects on your DSM? I perform this same exercise when I do smaller quilts that I FMQ on my DSM but have not re-pressed my tops when putting them on a LA.

I don't have a long-arm -

but if I did send my quilts out, I would think the long-armer would appreciate getting a top that is "square", laying flat and smooth/even, and with no seams are pulling apart.

I know that some long-armers perform miracles in getting a lumpy quilt top to "cooperate", but why should they have to?

I think we all go thru that. No matter how careful you are, or if you pin there is always a seam here or there that did its own thing. I press alot beginning to end.

I also press the back pretty carefully, but usually on a row by row basis as I'm putting it together. I do not care about twisted seams one bit - if I did I would drive myself nuts with it. I will fix any seams that I fear might come apart - sometimes if the seam allowance seem too skimpy, I'll just dab it with a little fraycheck to make sure it doesn't deteriorate on that edge.

Me too. I try to keep it pressed correctly throughout the piecing process, but somehow some of my seams become twisted during my final assembly. This is also the last chance to find errors prior to quilting.

I've found that things like a skimpy seam allowance "show up" more on the back than on the front.

Sometimes I will resort to clipping a twisted seam allowance (in two different spots) and put Fray Check on the clipped spots.k

I press as I make the blocks and rows. And then press again when the top is completed, both back and front. I have too much OCD in me! I have to fix the twisted seams! LOL

I have noticed watching Jenny Doan from MSQC that she doesn't worry about seams twisting. Apparently, they quilt out ok. My LA has never complained but I do press one final time and at least try to keep them one direction, especially if the darker colors might show through somewhere.

I've had Charisma quilt several of my larger quilts. I hope she doesn't hate me!! :D