Originally Posted by bearisgray
Originally Posted by Scissor Queen
Originally Posted by bearisgray
I don't know - I did fussy cut my pieces - but I could achieve a perfect line up - so I don't get it.
I did cut my pieces one by one - but it still seems logical to me that if the fabric pattern would "distort" - that it would do it over the whole piece.
Fabric won't get twisted and pulled perfectly evenly over the whole length in the washer.
So how come some fabric is pulled waaaaay off grain when it's still in the store? Hasn't been near a washer or dryer yet as far as I can tell.
Because whoever wound it on the bolt didn't get it started straight. I tried to find a video of how that's done but I couldn't find it. I don't remember where I saw it either.
A person takes the two selvedge edges and hold them together and starts it on a reel and a machine turns the reel however many times the person has set it for for the number of yards they want on the reel.