Cutting Bias Binding with the Stripology Ruler

hi my name is good Ren from GE designs and in this video I'd like to show you how to cut bias binding with this topology ruler now I love a good bias binding especially if I'm binding a quilt that has rounded corners or is circular for example here I have my positivity topper I love two curved edges on sometimes on toppers that have a lot of square shapes and in this case I just used a fat quarter because it's just a small topper so at first we're going to start with just to show you how to fold and cut a fat quarter into bias binding strips so we take our fat quarter we're gonna lay it face down on our cutting mat we have the long ways going horizontal you just want to take one corner bottom left corner and you want to fold it up so now that Salvage is even with the top cut edge and now this little fold here this is on the bias so this is our 45-degree bias edge so I'm just going to turn it because this is going to become our fold that we're gonna be cutting our strips from and then to make it small enough to fit onto our ruler I take the top corner here I just fold it down so it's even with this little cut edge here so now you're creating a tiny little fold here I bring this one down towards the bottom one and so now we have a nice folded piece that we can start cutting with and now I just bring my ruler over and normally I don't like to use the really tiny strips in the beginning so I'm just going to use start cutting right about here where I have that intersection come and you want to find a horizontal line on the ruler it doesn't really matter which one and align that bottom fold with the horizontal line and then just double-check up here to make sure that your top fold is parallel with the other lines so now I'm ready to cut and I like to cut my binding at two and a quarter so I have already marked up my ruler for the two and a quarter inch markings if you haven't downloaded the quarter-inch cutting guide from my website I encourage you to do that it has any size quarter-inch cuttings that you need to do marked on there but so we're gonna start with the pink arrows cutting through r0 and then just gonna continue on through my pink arrows this just makes it so that I don't have to think about it I make all my cuts I remove that first piece and then I slide the ruler over to the to the right so now that the cut edge is aligned with the dotted line which is our quarter inch line on the ruler and now I'm gonna go and do my second cuts on the blue arrows so on the two six-and-a-half and so on and now I have my bias strips all ready to go and look at that easy to just piece together and put together into a long strip this way you will get the longest strips you can get from the fat quarter plenty plenty of strips to bind little stoppers runners placemats and and things like that so what if you need more binding if you're piecing binding for a big quilt so a fat quarter is not going to cut it so now your pattern tells you that you need bigger piece of fabric so I have this is three I think it's two thirds of a yard that I have here Salvage to salvage and many tutorials will show you when you're cutting bias binding for a bigger quilts to cut your fabric first into a square but there's no need to do that so I want to show you how I fold a full piece of fabric like this into something that I can work with with my stove ology ruler so I lay my fabric horizontally lengthwise and I start just like I did with a fat quarter I take the left bottom corner and fold it up so it's aligned with the top edge over the fabric here when I'm will slide this over so you can see better on this end I'm gonna do the same thing I'm gonna pull this down so now it's folded even with that edge that I just folded up and now I'm gonna turn the piece so now as you can see I can do the same thing here I can bring this fold down and align it with the bottom to do my cut but I'm gonna do one thing first I'm gonna take that left corner and fold it in here all the way like so and now I'm ready to fold this down all the way down so now we have three folds down here which it would be very easy to go through with your 60-millimeter cutter but I think a 45 will be just fine so now I have the fold we just want to make sure we want to trim this fold off going through the zero because that's gonna trim our edge so I'm just making sure that I have a line aligned with the bottom fold I'm checking my top fold it's looking good and then I can just start cutting and the same thing I'm going to cut two and a quarter inch strips so I'm just gonna follow my pink arrows that I have in place and then I'm just gonna remove that first little sliver that I trimmed off and make sure that this goes back and now I'm just gonna slide the ruler over so that the fabric is now lined with a quarter inch line and make my second cuts and I'm using the blue arrows as before and out of the two thirds of a yard you're gonna get quite a bit of binding strips and look how long these are now that you can get out of folding your fabric like that and no need to be cutting it into squares first so there it is I hope you enjoyed seeing this video and will use it whenever you need some bias binding cut in no time thanks for being with me

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Length: 7min 12sec (432 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 25 2018