Don't go to Quilt In A Day tent sales at Paducah if you don't want your fabric ripped. That's the only way they cut the fabric. I went to a quilt market show and all the fabric was ripped unless it was prepackaged. I worked in a fashion sewing factory as a teenager and most all the fabric was ripped. Ripped fabric will not skew, have hundreds of thread hanging, or go off grain if the fabric is good quality. Low quality fabric will be a mess if you rip it and you'll lose many inches trying to get a straight grain rip. That's the way I can tell if the fabric is the good stuff and worth the money.