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Before laying out the pattern pieces, it’s important to check that your fabric is lying flat and straight. When you fold fabric in half, always ensure that the selvedges are aligned. Straightening the edge of the fabric is good practice, too, as it’s all too easy to cut out two pieces of a garment from a double layer of fabric only to find that the piece underneath is shorter because the edges weren’t level. When I trained, my tutors were very keen for us to pull out a weft thread across our fabric which we then used as a guide for cutting the end of the fabric in a straight line. I still do this occasionally but have developed other ways for straightening the edge of the fabric.