Create bold designs with bias tape appliqué on Fresh Quilting with Latifah Saafir (107-3)

hi I'm lucky persevere I'm a culture primarily but I'm also a pattern designer and a fabric designer and I love to create tools as well today we're going to talk about bias tape applique a very good example of bias tape applique is the quilt that we see here and it's one of my favorite techniques it's one of the favorite thing one of my favorite things to do and to play with and I have a lot of different quilts and patterns that I do with bias tape applique to show you a little bit about bias tape applique you have to understand a little bit about how fabric works we have here it's just a fat corner of fabric then I'm going to take that raw edge and fold it in a 45 degree angle if you're really catching one side to the opposite side most mats like this wonderful mat we have here have a 45 degree angle as well so you can line that up along with your mat to make sure it's a confirm it I always tell when I'm teaching someone this technique I tell them to turn that 45-degree angle towards him it just makes it a lot easier for you to see what you're doing if that piece of fabric is too large for you to cut on your mat itself you can actually fold it over to make it a little bit more compact in this situation we don't necessarily need to do that but you can fold it over as well the nice thing about this if you have a much larger piece of fabric you can continue to fold so that you're actually creating a square base to point that initial 45-degree angle and the beauty of vias is that all four edges and mown are on the bias and we can cut along any of those edges so I'm just going to take my rotary cutter and my ruler here the first thing I'm going to do is just to trim off the fold along that edge then I'm going to line that up with the mat and in this particular case what the quilt that I just showed you we're making a half-inch of bias strips and we'll talk a little bit about the width of the Bayeux trips in a moment but just to cut the strips we're just going to cut out one inch strips all the way along the width of the fabric this is going to allow us to have in the end a nice pile of bias tape strips that we can use depending upon the project in the quilt we can actually piece and sell those bioships together but today because of the project that we're working on was since the loops are relatively small we can actually take these individual bias strips and use them without piecing them together so that's what we're going to do today so a little bit about the bias strips themselves there's a series it's really wonderful to call bias tape makers they're relatively inexpensive they come in a series of sizes there's a couple of different brands that make them but the style that I like is the one that has the sort of a flat opening on the end and there's a couple of brands so when you look at for your bias tape maker look for that sort of flat style at the end of your bias tape maker today we're going to use a twelve millimeter or half inch size so those bias strips that we just cut I have some cut in the color that we're going to use today and which is the Navy and it's very simple this is something that I do recommend that you use stainless steam really allows you to set the crease on that bias tape so these are the strips that we're making right here and pretty much all it's doing is this bias tape maker as you feed it through it's going to fold those sides and we're going to press that into place so you see the end in like that and there's a little slot through the middle that allows you to pull that bias tape through you get it started and the very simple way to do this it's one of the methods that I learn from doing this a lot is to actually hope that bias tape maker sort of at a 90 degree angle to your ironing surface and this allows you to kind of keep the proper amount of pressure on that bias tape as its feeding through so the decides vote now really nicely so and you continue to do that until your bi-state strip is fed all the way through and this is the result so today the quote today the quote that we're working on includes it's called air show and it includes templates the way that I transfer my template design onto my background is actually to draw it directly on the background fabric if the fabric is light enough then you can see the template through the fabric and if it's not a lot of times you can cut the shape of that template out and lay the individual pieces on top and actually trace it on it's important oftentimes to use a pin that won't iron away I use a sharpie I wouldn't necessarily always recommend that but a nice acid-free marker like a pigment pigment as fine as long as iron it doesn't press away so once my design is transferred on I can also if I want to put inserts behind that bias tape applique as well so here the shape the loop shape in the center is cut out in fabric and I'm going to stitch that bail so we're going to actually play with this one first we're going to stitch this one down first my recommendation is to use a thread color that matches with the color of your bias tape but just so that you can see it easier today we're going to use a lighter thread and we're going to really test out my selling skills here so now I'm at my machine I'm going to take my bias tape in place right at the edge of my fabric and on top of that line that we drew on our fabric earlier the zipper foot I choose because it's perfect because just about every machine has a zipper foot and it works great for this application you can align it with the edge of that bias tape and sew really close to the edge of that we're just going to start sewing it's nice to have your needle stuff in the down position and once again that threat that we're using is gray so that you can see it but there's a lot of reasons why you want to use a thread that sort of matches with your fabric so you're going to go all the way around own the whole perimeter of your shape now I have one that I've already sewn together here it has that long pill on it we can cut that off but in the meantime I'm going to show you one of the most important steps here and this step is actually to press that you see how the bias tape is actually standing up actually on end we're going to use steam and heat to relax that outside edge of the bias tape so don't be afraid to stretch it a little bit you steaming your iron and we're going to press all the right way around that edge it's still going to stand up just a little bit and you see why we use a darker thread as well because you can definitely see those stitches and at home you're going to really take your time with that and stitch along it's still going to stand up some but we relax it enough to where we can stitch it down I'm going to go back to my machine and this out the last step is very simple we're actually going to just stitch that outside edge down once again resting the edge of that zipper foot right along the edge of the bias tape and we're just going to sew all the way around it starting at the edge of our fabric so when you're just going to continue to so you take your time as you're coming around the sharper curve and a nice dark bias tape that report that reflects the color of your bias tape what will look very nice against that so those are the basics of bias tape applique and those this particular technique you can make the beautiful scope that we have here on the wall with oranga bio state this is a block based version we also have over here a gray version with the continuous loops as well so the most important things are to take your time with it it's very close to the edge use it the RET color very coast close to the color of your bias tape and that's the bias tape applique [Music] you

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Keywords: Latifah Saafir, Northcott, Grace Company/Truecut, Coats and Clark, Brother International Corporation, innov-is VQ2400, rotary cutter, bias tape, appliqué, solid color fabrics, The Modern Quilt Guild, fresh quilting

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Length: 8min 47sec (527 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 15 2017