Originally Posted by
Pennyhal
Are you trying to straighten the fabric, or are you trying to square up the print on the fabric? If the fabric is printed off grain, it is visually more appealing to have the print straight than the fabric.
I was simply trying to straighten the fabric (which I did, I just had to cut quite a bit more off than I usually do). It is fine, that just brought to mind the whole question of ripping versus cutting because of what I was seeing in my fabrics. Namely, the ruffled edges that were sometimes distorted several inches in. This was the main thing bothering me, especially since I had to eek out a few cuts on a couple of my pieces of my fabric due to the loss of fabric attributable to the distortion I was trying to cut around.