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Posted by Kathy Applebaum on May 20, 2007, 11:48 am
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>I think the best argument for pressing seams to one side or another is
> for batting to stay in and not start bearding. But on the other hand,
> battings today are scrimmed and what not... but... I think it also
> helps with threads not peeking out as well...
I've been a press-open gal for many years, and I don't have a problem with
batting or threads peeking out. Of course, I make sure my tension is well
adjusted, I don't torture the quilt by stretching it, and I trim my thread
tails as I go.
Sloppily made quilts will have problems no matter how the seams are pressed.
(Or, more commonly, hardly pressed at all.) Well made quilts will be well
made no matter how the seams are pressed.
What really cracks me up are the customers who press all the seams to one
side on the top, but press open on the back. Whenever I ask them, they say
they press to one side on the top so the batting won't escape -- then why
would they press open on the back? Makes no sense to me. :)
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Kathy A. (Woodland, CA)
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Posted by Donna Aten on May 20, 2007, 12:11 am
I think the 'rule' about not pressing seams open started back in the days of
hand piecing. Most of us machine piece now. I can see no difference
between pressing seams open on clothing (which is certainly worn and washed
a lot) than on quilts.
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Donna in Idaho
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> I'm laying in bed with hubby's laptop practising being a super gimp.
> VBG I started studying the quilt on the bed- it's moderately worn,
> all machine pieced with Coats cotton wrapped poly core thread and
> made with medium quality all cotton fabrics. Not WalMart cheap and
> not LQS nice, but in between. It's been washed a LOT. I noticed at
> every seam there is a slight white-ish line on the side of the seam
> that the seam allowance was pressed towards.
> Do you think pressing the seams open would delay the development of
> the white line or is this just a live with it kinda thing?
> Leslie- doing a LOT better and getting ready to raise some heck in the
> medical community & The Furbabies in MO.
>
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Posted by Anne Rogers on May 20, 2007, 12:50 am
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>I think the 'rule' about not pressing seams open started back in the days
>of hand piecing. Most of us machine piece now. I can see no difference
>between pressing seams open on clothing (which is certainly worn and washed
>a lot) than on quilts.
I can see two, one is the batting, but as others have pointed out, it's
better quality these days, less likely to beard. The other is quilting,
SITD, doesn't really work very well on open seams.
Anne
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Posted by Kathy Applebaum on May 20, 2007, 11:50 am
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> >I think the 'rule' about not pressing seams open started back in the days
> >of hand piecing. Most of us machine piece now. I can see no difference
> >between pressing seams open on clothing (which is certainly worn and
> >washed a lot) than on quilts.
> I can see two, one is the batting, but as others have pointed out, it's
> better quality these days, less likely to beard. The other is quilting,
> SITD, doesn't really work very well on open seams.
Au contraire. I do a lot of SID on seams that are pressed open. If the
tension of the original piecing was good, SID works fabulously.
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Kathy A. (Woodland, CA)
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Posted by Anne Rogers on May 20, 2007, 12:44 am
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> Do you think pressing the seams open would delay the development of
> the white line or is this just a live with it kinda thing?
I suspect it would, but I always took the pressing of seams to be something
you did because it made piecing and potentially quilting easier rather than
because it wore the best.
Anne
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> for batting to stay in and not start bearding. But on the other hand,
> battings today are scrimmed and what not... but... I think it also
> helps with threads not peeking out as well...