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Bias binding can be bought in plain colours at your local
haby/fabric store and is a good staple to have in your
favourite colours in your sewing stash.
Bias Binding
above the raw edge
Manual Assembly
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Fold your strip in half Wrong Sides Together
However, sometimes having binding in a patterned fabric
that coordinates with your project gives a much more
satisfying outcome.
To make bias binding you will need
1.
Fabric, washed, dried and pressed (a lot of tutori-
als require a whopping 1 yard, this makes a lot of bind-
ing, use what you have ok?)
2.
Quilters rule
3.
Tailors chalk, or my favourite, a 2B pencil
4.
Rotary cutter
5.
Self healing cutting mat
6.
Scissors
7.
Sewing machine
8.
Thread
9.
Pins
10.
Optional but useful – bias tape maker (Clover do
them)
Our quick instructions here are:
•
Determine how wide you would like your tape to
be, the strips you cut will be 4 times the width of that
•
Fold your fabric in half, pin together at the edges
if that helps you align it
•
Using your quilters rule to get a 45 degree angle
to the edge of the fabric, draw a series of parallel lines if
you are anxious, or be bold and
brave and cut them straight away
with the rotary cutter
•
Using the rotary cutter
and quilters rule (preferred for
neatest edges) cut the strips out,
scissors if you don’t
have one
•
You will have a
number of V shaped
strips which you will
need to snip with your
scissors
•
Joining the strips: Right Sides Together put the
strips together at a 90 degree angle. Stitch at a 45 degree
angle. Join them all so you have one continuous piece of
fabric strip. Snip off the tiny triangle edges that protrude
along the middle of the long edge. Press until you have a
crisp edge.
press and fold along the centre crease
right side of fabric
Fold edges in toward
the centre pressed seam.
right side of fabric
Press along the folds
Press bias strip
right side of fabric
•
Open up the folded bit of fabric. Now you will
fold the raw long edges in together to the middle crease.
Press.
•
Now fold it back together on the original fold.
Press.
•
Wind on a card and you are done
Using a Tape Maker
•
Take your strip of fabric Right Side DOWN and
your bias tape maker, feed the strip of fabric into the U
shaped opening at the widest part of the wedge. On
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the bottom side there is a peep hole which is extremely
handy because you can use a pin to poke in there and
guide the fabric out of the business end
Bias Binding
Straight stitch
in the 1st crease
of the binding
matching
raw edges
wrong side
of binding
turn over
1/2” at
the start
right side
of fabric
Then fold the binding
over the top around
the raw fabric edges,
turning the final edge
under pin in place,
matching the bind-
ing on the other side.
Edgestitch along the
binding
•
Your iron needs to be as hot at the fabric can
take, cotton setting if you are using cotton, low heat for
polyesters
•
Do it SLOWLY. As the fabric strip emerges from
the business end of the tape you will see that it is folded
in on itself from either edge. Only pull out a bit at a time
and press it. With steam. Mind your fingers.
•
You will need to keep moving the tape and tape
maker along the ironing board so you don’t go off the
edge
•
Once you are at the end, fold it in on itself at the
small gap left by the fabric in the middle and press again.
•
Wrap around a bit of card until it is ready to use.
And now it’s time to attach
the binding.
So
easy!
To do this open out your binding on one side and align
one raw edge of your binding to the folded and stitched
straight edge of the fabric, right sides together, pin in
place and sew along the crease.
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Other sources
Bias Binding
First is from Dana
http://thehabygoddess.blogspot.com/2010/06/using-
binder-foot-attachment.html
And here are some nifty instructions on how to use bias
tape.
There is a chunky wealth of tutorials and information on
making bias tape/binding on the internet.
Try these places for more information
http://scientificseamstress.blogspot.com/
She has free dowloadable bias tape makers in �½ and 1”.
You print it on cardstock. It is the business!
http://scientificseamstress.blogspot.com/2011/10/printa-
ble-bias-tape-maker.html
http://scientificseamstress.blogspot.com/2011/11/dou-
ble-or-nothing.html
complete with instructions.
http://www.dana-made-it.com/2008/07/
tutorial-heart-hotpads-how-to-sew-bias.html
She shows two methods, the proper way and the cheats
way, I am a fan of the cheats way myself but the proper
way is better.
Here is the Haby Goddess with a tutorial on how to make
a kids apron, which really is just an exercise in attaching
binding
http://thehabygoddess.blogspot.com/2011/09/tutorial-
kids-pvc-covered-apron-pattern.html
Collette patterns tutorial – very clear photos
http://www.dana-made-it.com/2008/07/
technique-understanding-bias-and-making.
html :
this woman is a goddess, her method is faultless, her
instructions are clear, her photos are instructive and un-
ambiguous, she uses a bias tape maker and a quilters rule
This is where I bought my bias tape maker, her instruc-
tions are easy and clear
http://www.coletterie.com/tutorials-tips-
tricks/facing-or-detail-bias-binding
The Colette blog, book and patterns are exquisite, a fan-
tastic reference and visually stunning.
http://nicolemdesign.blogspot.
com/2008/08/so-whats-all-fuss-about-bias-
tape.html
The Haby Goddess has done 3 tutorials! One has links to
a video from Expert Village, from Jeanette White, who is
the owner of Piper's Quilts & Comforts in Sugarhouse, UT.
I like her because she is from a place called sugarhouse, I
also LOVE this method of folding the fabric and cutting,
no sewing into strange shapes and confusing
tubes.You
cut, then you attach the individual strips together
http://thehabygoddess.blogspot.
com/2010/06/todays-all-about-bias-bind-
ing.html
One displays how to use a bias tape maker
http://thehabygoddess.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-
use-bias-tape-maker.html
and the last one is how to use a binder foot attachment
for your sewing machine (how great is that?)
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