To tell the girl in the fabric shop not to rip the fabric?

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Instead of cutting it? I hate it when they do that! The edge of the fabric curls...especially if it's not cotton as mine was not today...it pulls down the warp and weft of it somehow and strains it.

Today in the fabric shop in town, I was buying four metres of 4 different fabrics. She took the first roll, measured it and then rrrrrriiiiiiiiiiipppp!

So I said politely "Would you mind not tearing them please? I'd rather they were cut as the amount I am buying is already tight for the project I have in mind"

And she said "It'll fray anyway...and I'm not very good at cutting so it might not be straight" in a warning kind of voice.

So I said, well as long as I have a fully useable metre I don't mind.

As I went upstairs to the next section, I could feel ALL the eyes of the girls who work there boring into my back.

WIBU?

onthebottom - that's the safest way to do it - it's more like cutting with a knife that way, and doesn't pull the fabric as much.

My mum trained in fashion and textiles and insists on ripping fabric to go with the grain. If it is cut she tears the uneven bits off! I've seen the difference it makes to the final project, well worth ripping. You've made me want to buy fabric now

I have been known to rip fabric to save myself having to cut it straight don't bother measuring much either . I find it works fine on heavier fabrics without a "regular" pattern - spots, stripes and the like I will cut straight to the pattern unless it is for something where the drape will show, but then I am mostly making bags and stuff rather than cutting out to a pattern.

As for the OP - it makes no odds to her, so YANBU. Pinking shears would take for ever though, so that is not really practicable.

As for what I people do with the fabric, RaspberrySorbet, personally I hoard it in a Gollum like fashion make lots of useful stuff out of it.

I have a tower of fabric that's nicely wedged in between the top of the wardrobe and the bedroom ceiling. The problem with working were I do is that it's it's so tempting to buy metres of fabric when it's reduced to silly prices. Oh well, one day it'll come in useful!

They usually give you a bit extra though don't they to make up for wonky edges