Things always seem to go bad when I use a pattern with them and can't be bothered trimming them down to 3/8" or 1/4" before I sew them. Things are harder to match up, curves harder to sew then I STILL have to trim down the seam later.
So yeah I am opposed to anything more than 3/8" unless there is a good reason like flat felled seams. If you've done your fitting then theres no need. How often have you actually let a garment out as you've grown out it? Never I'm guessing.
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I hear you. Learned on Burda magazine patterns, with no SA included. Now I'm coming back to sewing, and the challenge of pre-determined SAs frustrates me no end. I'm the one who decides what seam and finish technique to use (french, flat fell, whatever) so who is the publisher to dictate seam allowances?
/vent
I think the idea comes from the days when there needed to be fit insurance and since then no pattern company has had the nerve to put what actually makes sense or at the very least print the stitch line. 5/8" seems huge to me now and when I sew a seam using such a large SA I find it ripples so much more.
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