Originally Posted by Favorite Fabrics
Originally Posted by quiltluvr
Shops here cut--scissors and rotary. I visited a shop in VA years back. They rotary cut the regular bolts but tore the wide backing material.
Come to think of it, it happened like that too in a shop I visited in PA too.
Hmmm... any off-grain issue will be multiplied by the width of the fabric, so it probably makes sense to be doing tearing with the wide backings.
And yet... supposing it was off-grain, you'd now have a very large diamond-shaped piece of fabric for your backing. So you'd better wash it, right? So that it straightens out before assembly?
Washing sometimes helps it "straighten" - sometimes it doesn't - that's why I wash BEFORE I do anything else to the fabric - I've learned to let the fabric "do it's own thing" - I won't even try to straighten the modern fabrics