Originally Posted by Carol Paoff
I am making a baby bunting out of baby wale corduroy and cannot understand the cutting instructions: from each color cut 38 4½" squares. Follow the wale of the corduroy along two sides and cut the opposite sides perpendicular to the wale so that all squares are cut on the true grain of the fabric. I don't know what they're talking about. Couldn't I just cut all the squares the same way on the fabric and then turn the wale the opposite way? Maybe someone can draw me a picture so my brain understands what they mean by cutting the opposite sides perpendicular to the wale. Help!!!
perpendicular means right angles. they want you to cut two sides absolutely on wale and two sides absolutely at right angles (90*). that way you end up with a perfect square. the cut that's even with the selvedge is called parallel