Originally Posted by wannaquilt1
So at my LQS I got 1/2 yard of fabric and she put a little slit in the fabric and then ripped the fabric for the yardage! I gasped and she laughed since i've never seen it done this way before. Is the line more accurate this way? I would think they would get tired from doing this all day...
I decided to try tearing instead of cutting a length of LQS fabric--famous brand--Tore both ends and I can tell you that it never got straight with the selvage. I tried what my mother did--I pulled a thread from selvage to selvage, or at least I tried to. The thread in this fabric didn't go from selvage to selvage. It got lost somewhere in the middle. Since I was using it in quilt blocks, I decided not to worry about it. If I had been using it in a garment, it would have been critical.
I'm not on either side in this discussion. I just think there isn't any hard and fast rule. froggyintexas