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We've all heard the Quilt Police. Press this way; press that. Aim toward
the feed dogs, aim away. Pin before and aft and in the middle. Sew over pins. Don't. I've declared myself an 'expert'. For those of you who don't know, an expert is someone 50 miles away from home with a briefcase. Bringing forward my dress making experience and my heirloom sewing along too - I have decided to ignore the rules and press my quilt piecing/block seams open. Yes. I have. Just in case that would make the seam endings weaker or more prone to come undone, I've set my stitch length a little shorter. Ta-Dah. I've just make a quilt top of something so sweet: Tweetie Bird on bright yellow combined with a batik of Blue Jay blue. Every ... need to HOLLER he corner. Every one of them is pretty perfect. Open pressing just works so much better for me. Conclusion? Let's all go out and break some rules. After all . .. there's a full moon. Polly |
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I've grown up to press seams open, too, Polly. I love the flatter look
on the top. I do press dry first, though, just in case of a sneaky pleat! Then when I've checked the other side, I'll use the steam. I've even thought that I will practise Judy Mathieson's foundation paper piecing method, where you can choose your seam pressing 'direction', so that I can press them open. I have done it once or twice, but it is slower for me until I get more used to it. That has been the only fault I have found with that technique. I shall be breaking rules and cutting corners a lot over the next three weeks! (not necessarily in quilting though). .. In message , Polly Esther writes We've all heard the Quilt Police. Press this way; press that. Aim toward the feed dogs, aim away. Pin before and aft and in the middle. Sew over pins. Don't. I've declared myself an 'expert'. For those of you who don't know, an expert is someone 50 miles away from home with a briefcase. Bringing forward my dress making experience and my heirloom sewing along too - I have decided to ignore the rules and press my quilt piecing/block seams open. Yes. I have. Just in case that would make the seam endings weaker or more prone to come undone, I've set my stitch length a little shorter. Ta-Dah. I've just make a quilt top of something so sweet: Tweetie Bird on bright yellow combined with a batik of Blue Jay blue. Every ... need to HOLLER he corner. Every one of them is pretty perfect. Open pressing just works so much better for me. Conclusion? Let's all go out and break some rules. After all . .. there's a full moon. Polly -- Best Regards Pat on the Green |
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I do that Polly, my left over habits from when I used to make all my
families clothes. I also pin before, in the middle and at the end, another habit - even to the extent that if I am uncomfortable with the seam, I will even baste it. I also sew over the very point of the pins, and never had one break the needle yet.... "Open pressing just works so much better for me. Conclusion? Let's all go out and break some rules. After all . .. there's a full moon. Polly" I'll second that. -- Di I'm creative! You can't expect me to be neat too. Vic Australia "Polly Esther" wrote in message ... We've all heard the Quilt Police. Press this way; press that. Aim toward the feed dogs, aim away. Pin before and aft and in the middle. Sew over pins. Don't. I've declared myself an 'expert'. For those of you who don't know, an expert is someone 50 miles away from home with a briefcase. Bringing forward my dress making experience and my heirloom sewing along too - I have decided to ignore the rules and press my quilt piecing/block seams open. Yes. I have. Just in case that would make the seam endings weaker or more prone to come undone, I've set my stitch length a little shorter. Ta-Dah. I've just make a quilt top of something so sweet: Tweetie Bird on bright yellow combined with a batik of Blue Jay blue. Every ... need to HOLLER he corner. Every one of them is pretty perfect. Open pressing just works so much better for me. Conclusion? Let's all go out and break some rules. After all . .. there's a full moon. Polly |
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On Mar 26, 1:27*am, "Polly Esther" wrote:
We've all heard the Quilt Police. *Press this way; press that. *Aim toward the feed dogs, aim away. *Pin before and aft and in the middle. *Sew over pins. *Don't. * * I've declared myself an 'expert'. *For those of you who don't know, an expert is someone 50 miles away from home with a briefcase. * * Bringing forward my dress making experience and my heirloom sewing along too - I have decided to ignore the rules and press my quilt piecing/block seams open. * * Yes. * * I have. * * Just in case that would make the seam endings weaker or more prone to come undone, I've set my stitch length a little shorter. * * Ta-Dah. * * I've just make a quilt top of something so sweet: *Tweetie Bird on bright yellow combined with a batik of Blue Jay blue. *Every ... need to HOLLER he *corner. *Every one of them is pretty perfect. * * Open pressing just works so much better for me. *Conclusion? * Let's all go out and break some rules. *After all . .. there's a full moon. *Polly Another 'open presser' here as well. Again from the clothing experience side of things. And I agree, I like the flatter look of the completed top that way. Rarely have I had an issue with the ends of the seams - mostly they are 'caught' by the next seam. Your quilt sounds adorable. I have no idea how you can be so incredibly productive and get so many quilts done so quickly! I'm mightily impressed! Kim in NJ |
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I've thumbed my nose at the 'quilt police' as well. Like a lot of you
ladies, I come from a garment making background. When I started quilting, I listened to the accumulated 'wisdom', tried to press all to the dark side, tried to do it 'right' and decided that it was fine if you only made square patch quilts. Now I mix and match side pressed and open pressed seams depending on the block unit. The more complicated the block the more I tend to press the seams open to reduce the bulk, but if it is not necessary I press towards the side that has fewer perpendicular seams. The only rule I follow is that the pressing must be consistent among all the blocks for that particular quilt and if I am still trying to decide which block should go where, then the pressing must be consistent even if the block is rotated a quarter turn. Diana - PA On Mar 26, 7:25*am, AuntK wrote: On Mar 26, 1:27*am, "Polly Esther" wrote: We've all heard the Quilt Police. *Press this way; press that. *Aim toward the feed dogs, aim away. *Pin before and aft and in the middle. *Sew over pins. *Don't. * * I've declared myself an 'expert'. *For those of you who don't know, an expert is someone 50 miles away from home with a briefcase. * * Bringing forward my dress making experience and my heirloom sewing along too - I have decided to ignore the rules and press my quilt piecing/block seams open. * * Yes. * * I have. * * Just in case that would make the seam endings weaker or more prone to come undone, I've set my stitch length a little shorter. * * Ta-Dah. * * I've just make a quilt top of something so sweet: *Tweetie Bird on bright yellow combined with a batik of Blue Jay blue. *Every ... need to HOLLER he *corner. *Every one of them is pretty perfect. * * Open pressing just works so much better for me. *Conclusion? * Let's all go out and break some rules. *After all . .. there's a full moon. *Polly Another 'open presser' here as well. *Again from the clothing experience side of things. *And I agree, I like the flatter look of the completed top that way. *Rarely have I had an issue with the ends of the seams - mostly they are 'caught' by the next seam. *Your quilt sounds adorable. *I have no idea how you can be so incredibly productive and get so many quilts done so quickly! *I'm mightily impressed! Kim in NJ |
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Welcome to my world! I almost always press my seams open and, yes, I sew
over pins. When I pin my pieces together, though, I pin from left to right, rather than the traditional way, and the tip of the pin ends up close to the 1/4" seam line. For me, it seems to cause less distortion as I sew the pieces together, and I'm sewing over just the tip of the pin - less likely to get a broken needle. To get a really flat seam, after pressing them open and checking to make sure there are no pleats, I dip a small paintbrush (like you'd use for watercolor) into water and run it along the seam line on the right side. I then plop my iron down on it, and it comes out really nice. I don't care to use steam in my iron, so this is my alternative. The exception to open seams is for the borders. I still press toward them in one direction there, just because it's easier. -- Louise in Iowa nieland1390@mchsi dot com http://community.webshots.com/user/louiseiniowa Polly Esther wrote: We've all heard the Quilt Police. Press this way; press that. Aim toward the feed dogs, aim away. Pin before and aft and in the middle. Sew over pins. Don't. I've declared myself an 'expert'. For those of you who don't know, an expert is someone 50 miles away from home with a briefcase. Bringing forward my dress making experience and my heirloom sewing along too - I have decided to ignore the rules and press my quilt piecing/block seams open. Yes. I have. Just in case that would make the seam endings weaker or more prone to come undone, I've set my stitch length a little shorter. Ta-Dah. I've just make a quilt top of something so sweet: Tweetie Bird on bright yellow combined with a batik of Blue Jay blue. Every ... need to HOLLER he corner. Every one of them is pretty perfect. Open pressing just works so much better for me. Conclusion? Let's all go out and break some rules. After all . .. there's a full moon. Polly |
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Whatever works! Ssh... I press open too sometimes, when it works
better. Roberta in D On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:27:00 -0500, "Polly Esther" wrote: We've all heard the Quilt Police. Press this way; press that. Aim toward the feed dogs, aim away. Pin before and aft and in the middle. Sew over pins. Don't. I've declared myself an 'expert'. For those of you who don't know, an expert is someone 50 miles away from home with a briefcase. Bringing forward my dress making experience and my heirloom sewing along too - I have decided to ignore the rules and press my quilt piecing/block seams open. Yes. I have. Just in case that would make the seam endings weaker or more prone to come undone, I've set my stitch length a little shorter. Ta-Dah. I've just make a quilt top of something so sweet: Tweetie Bird on bright yellow combined with a batik of Blue Jay blue. Every ... need to HOLLER he corner. Every one of them is pretty perfect. Open pressing just works so much better for me. Conclusion? Let's all go out and break some rules. After all . .. there's a full moon. Polly |
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Breaking rules And cutting corners? That has a delightful ring to it. I'll
join you. Polly "Pat S" I've grown up to press seams open, too, Polly. I love the flatter look on the top. I do press dry first, though, just in case of a sneaky pleat! Then when I've checked the other side, I'll use the steam. I've even thought that I will practise Judy Mathieson's foundation paper piecing method, where you can choose your seam pressing 'direction', so that I can press them open. I have done it once or twice, but it is slower for me until I get more used to it. That has been the only fault I have found with that technique. I shall be breaking rules and cutting corners a lot over the next three weeks! (not necessarily in quilting though). . , Polly Esther We've all heard the Quilt Police. Press this way; press that. Aim toward the feed dogs, aim away. Pin before and aft and in the middle. Sew over pins. Don't. I've declared myself an 'expert'. For those of you who don't know, an expert is someone 50 miles away from home with a briefcase. Bringing forward my dress making experience and my heirloom sewing along too - I have decided to ignore the rules and press my quilt piecing/block seams open. Yes. I have. Just in case that would make the seam endings weaker or more prone to come undone, I've set my stitch length a little shorter. Ta-Dah. I've just make a quilt top of something so sweet: Tweetie Bird on bright yellow combined with a batik of Blue Jay blue. Every ... need to HOLLER he corner. Every one of them is pretty perfect. Open pressing just works so much better for me. Conclusion? Let's all go out and break some rules. After all . .. there's a full moon. Polly |
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Well now ain't that nice!!!
I have secretly been pressing open most of my seams since I started this latst addiction (piecing and quilting) a few years ago. However, since the consensus always seemed to be to press seams to one side, I quietly went my own way and never told anyone anything! Works fine for me. This is what I'm used to doing with seams. Read an article yesterday in this month's Qulter Magazine (arrived in my mailbox yesterday) on stitching in the ditch. As that is the quilting I use mostly, I was interested to see that the author says that seams have to be pressed to one side otherwise you're only stitching on threads rather than fabric. Maybe so, but all the stuff I've done to date is none the worse for wear! So glad to finally be able to come out into the open and admit that I like to press my seams open and not have to feel guilty about it any longer!!! Oh and yes, I also lick my floass when I cross stitch (bite me if you dare!) And I pich off raw pieces of cookie dough or cake batter when baking (and I use real eggs, not the artificial stuff) so sue me! Here's to you, quilt police; go find someone else to make miserable! Claudia |
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Sandy wrote:
In article , "Polly Esther" wrote: We've all heard the Quilt Police. Press this way; press that. Aim toward the feed dogs, aim away. Pin before and aft and in the middle. Sew over pins. Don't. I've declared myself an 'expert'. For those of you who don't know, an expert is someone 50 miles away from home with a briefcase. Bringing forward my dress making experience and my heirloom sewing along too - I have decided to ignore the rules and press my quilt piecing/block seams open. Yes. I have. Just in case that would make the seam endings weaker or more prone to come undone, I've set my stitch length a little shorter. Ta-Dah. I've just make a quilt top of something so sweet: Tweetie Bird on bright yellow combined with a batik of Blue Jay blue. Every ... need to HOLLER he corner. Every one of them is pretty perfect. Open pressing just works so much better for me. Conclusion? Let's all go out and break some rules. After all . .. there's a full moon. Polly I've done a little bit of the "shhhh ... don't tell, but the seams are pressed open" thing, Polly. I usually do it where bulk is a consideration, but I may begin doing it more often. There are only 4 Laws of Quilting! 1: There are no quilt police! 2: If it works, it's right! 3: If *you* like the pattern/colour combination, then it's beautiful. 4: Finished is perfect! -- Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.katedicey.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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