Originally Posted by laalaaquilter
Why should I care if the fabric is straight of grain? I've been reading the 'torn vs cut' thread for the pros and cons of that and it all seems to come back to getting the fabric straight on the grain but no one has explained why it needs to be straight when I'm going to cut it a million ways and sew it five ways from Sunday.
It's less of an issue when you are cutting the fabric into small pieces.
It is a really big issue if it's backing fabric. Your quilt top will be rectangular... and you don't want to pair that with a piece of backing fabric that is a parallelogram or diamond-shaped.