Originally Posted by
jeemmerling621
You said you tore WOF? If so, that may be the problem. Straight tears sometimes come from tearing selvage to selvage or WOF, but tearing along the selvage or length of fabric (LOF) will always produce a straight tear. Does this help?
It seems to me that tearing either WOF or LOF should always be straight, but sometimes, because the fabric has stretched, it seems not to be. I think that's what happened in this case, and my additional stretching made it OK.