Originally Posted by jtapp9
Originally Posted by miriam
My mom would always check it - she would hold the fabric out to the end of her arm with one hand and up to her nose with the other... That was a yard.
OMG thats how my mom taught me to check yardage when a tape wasn't available! How cool to hear someone else say that :)
I was taught that too, and I still do it to see how much is in a cut piece. LOL