Originally Posted by RkayD
You hold your piece up straight and slide the edges of the fabric sideways until your fabric hangs straight.
This is right!!
And now, at this point, there is another thing you can do to not only get straight lines in your cut, but make your piece smaller so your rulers will fit your cut - You don't always have to have a 22 or 24 inch ruler!
Here's what you do:
Now that you have your selvedges together, and the fabric is hanging straight as explained above, take the fold edge and fold it up again, but not all the way to the top of the selvedge, maybe only 6 or 10 inches or so.
Then measure at 3 or 4 places along these 2 fold lines. When you get the same measurement in all the places you measure (it can be 6-3/4", or 7-1/8", or 9", or 10-1/2", as long as they are all the same),
*****then your fabric is squared up and your cut strips will be spot-on.
2-fold square cut
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