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Old 05-16-2011, 01:34 PM
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sewcrafty
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Originally Posted by sfguimaraes
Originally Posted by sewcrafty
When folding your fabric for cutting, hold it up and let fall naturally. Then even up the edge and then make your strips. The "V" is from the fabric not being on grain when cut.
Denise, usually I take close care on aligning the selvage edges of the fabric, and I thought this would make me fold in the right position (is my English understandable?).

Very interesting what you said about "let fall naturally"! TY
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I found that, especially after washing, my material it is a little wonky. By letting it find its natural fold (when folding selvedge to selvedge), its on the grain (then you can see how much its shrunk LOL). I just even it up and good to go. I've had this ruler for OMG many many years and if it ever broke I'd be running out to get another one.
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