Absorbent product with elevated CD stretch and low tensile ratios made with a high solids fabric crepe process

A cellulose fiber absorbent sheet comprises a mixture of hardwood and needle fibers arranged in a network having: (i) a plurality of stacked fiber enriched areas of relatively high local surface weight interconnected by (ii) a plurality of lower local surface weight connecting regions whose fiber orientation is unilaterally along the machine direction between stacked areas interconnected by, wherein the sheet shows a% CD stretch which is at least about 2.75 times the dry tensile ratio of the sheet. Tensile ratios of from about 0.4 to about 4 are quickly obtained.