Bias Binding New Tutorial

First thing. Take your piece of fabric. Cut it square, minimum 35 x 35 cm. It doesn't have to be sqaure sqaure, it can be a rectangle as well, as mine. :)

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Fold your fabric, so you get a triangle, as shown on the picture.

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Cut the fold, and you have 2 pieces of fabric.

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Like this. :D

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Take one piece and transfer it to the other side of the other piece, so the sides are together.

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Pin the former sides together as shown - right side against right side.

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Sew it with a 0.5 cm seam allowance and a stitch length of 1 or 1,5 mm.

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Iron the seam allowance apart.

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And this is what you'll have now.

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Now start drawing the width of your bias tape. I have a tape maker where the finished bias binding tape width is 1,8 cm, so I'm drawing 4 cm wide strips onto my fabric.

Start on one of the 'new' sides, so you're drawing at a 45 degree from the thread direction.

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Here you can see the size of my bias tape maker. I think it's normal to cut a width which is about double the tape maker's size. At least it works for me. :)

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Here you can see my finished lines. :) If you have a last piece which is not wide enough, just cut it off. (The last piece on the far left here, for example).

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Now start cutting at one corner, but just about 10 cm.

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And now comes the fun part - you have to pin the top and bottom together, so the lines you've made fit together. It's very important that you make them fit, so that you'll have a spiral. Which is why we cut at the beginning of one corner. :)

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Here you can see what it looks like, when it's all pinned.

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Sew it now, with a seam allowance of 0,5 cm and a stitch length of 1-1,5 mm.

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Iron the seam allowance apart.

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And this is what you have now.

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Now cut the line you've drawn, all the way through.

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Now you'll have a pretty big amount of ribbon. :)

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Take your bias tape maker, and start ironing your ribbon into your new Bias Binding Tape. :D

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Tadaa!

See how much bias binding I got from a piece of scrap fabric. :)

I hope yo enjoyed the tutorial. Please comment if you have any questions, and don't forget to share with your crafty friends.

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