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Pressing is Important!
By Serena Smith | June 26, 2006
Pressing is an important part of any project, especially quilting! You can stitch a perfectly matched, accurate quarter-inch seam block, but it can easily become a block to restitch by poor pressing methods. Janet Wickell from About Quilting.com writes the following:
Your piecing accuracy will improve immediately when you take a bit of time to
press your quilt blocks as you make them. Pressing is an extra step, but you’ll
love the payoff in time saved when your quilt blocks fit together just like they
should.Pressing seam allowances as you work helps eliminate little widths
of fabric that become “lost” in seams, creating distortions and making blocks
smaller than they should be. Let’s say your block contains a row of pieced
units, and in that row there are a total of ten seams. What if a penline width
of fabric is caught up in each seam allowance simply because you didn’t press?
It doesn’t sound like much, but multiply a penline by 10 and it becomes the
difference between stitching an accurate block or a block that won’t match up to
its neighbors.
Topics: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
June 27th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
Thanks for the reminder. (I am getting back to pressing…)
BTW I try to sneak those cats into most of my projects. (I use novelties as regular fabric & I go scrappy so they play nicely with everything else – IMHO)