HOW TO - CUT BIAS STRIPS OF FABRIC - FOR YOUR ROPE BOWLS!

hi I'm crafty Patti today I'm going to show you the proper way to cut your strips of fabric for making your roll bowls by cutting it on the bias you get a nice stretch when you're wrapping the rope and it will eliminate all the fraying if you're cutting it just with a grain of fabric [Music] here's what it will look like if you cut it with the grain of fabric all these little frayed ends are going to come out this is cutting on the bias and look how clean the edges are that's what we want to do you'll need a cutting mat an omni grade ruler and your rotary cutter with a nice sharp blade and let's get to it so here we've got a piece of fabric and as you can see it's a lot larger than my cutting board and that's gonna be really awkward to cut so what we need to do is fold it in a way that we can cut it so it's easier here's my - so much edges this is the raw edge that was cut from the bolt of fabric and of course about the other raw edge on the other end here and it doesn't matter how much you've cut whether it's a metre 3/4 a metre and a quarter it doesn't really matter so what we're going to do is we're taking this corner this is our Salvage edge this is my raw edge and we're bringing it up and forming a triangle so I'll just bring this over it doesn't have to be exact it's my salvage edge you can see that there's absolutely no gift there whatsoever here's one of my raw edges you've got a little bit more gift there but on your bias it's going to pull and stretch a lot consume much that stretches and that's what we're after so it's still too much fabric to cut so what we're going to do is we're going to bring this corner and bring it down to the other corner I'm just going to lift this up here a bit so you can see what I'm doing and this corner it's going to come right down to my other corner and we still got too much to go through so at this point in time you'll see here's your two folders one layer and there's a layer there okay so those are the layers that you want to match up so now let's just turn this so we've got it squared up with our our board here and just as a good reminder you'll know that these two edges have got the two poles this has only one inch so you'll know that when you fold it again you know that this edge is going to come over the double edges okay so this one is not going to come over like so and we can bring that break down to our little corner there and now we have something that we can cut through you can bring this up if you want it doesn't really matter and our first cut we're just going to cut off all the folds so I'm using my Omni grid real ruler and I've put in a new blade because you're cutting through lots of layers here so that's if I'm a sharp blade so let's just go through here and we're going to just cut off that edge that is all folded ok so now you've got your nice clean edge and now we can start making our cuts now if you are going to use this for actual bias tape you'd probably cut two inch strips but being that I'm going to use this for my rolls I'm only going to cut one inch strips so he was my one inch mark so they can come through and here's our first piece of binding so you've got the angle in which will come in handy and there's one strip and there's another strip cut two strips at once I'm going to hold this on my ruler right here and then I'm gonna pull and you'll see I'm gonna pull I'm getting an almost an extra inch of stretch that's cutting on the bias and my edges look really nice and clean now I'm left-handed so I need to flip this around so it's easy to cut my next trip so I'm just gonna slip this underneath and turn this around and now what I can do is I can come in with my Omni great ruler place it on my guide line my one inch overall my Omni grid and then I'm ready to make my next cut and I don't have to keep moving your fabric this way you're just using your ruler to measure your one inch mark and away you go through your all your fat [Applause] you and when you get closer to the end of your folded fabric you'll be making smaller pieces so there's one piece and there's another little piece so you might not want to go that far down because you're just gonna get little tiny pieces but you might want some just a little bits of color here and there in a basket it's a little work up but I'll show you how to piece these together if you want to make your shorter ones longer so here I am teasing my little pieces together there's one join in another one and another one now make sure when you if you're doing a few of them together make sure that you've got your right side as the top not be joined side nice side is up and then let's go to the next one we're matching up or two right edges but we're going to slide it up so we've got a point showing on both sides so you've got the point here and the point extending on this side and these two sides are flush together and bring in the pin to hold it in place a little bit and again we're going to sew from this point to this point so this edge is parallel to our slow machine here and I'm going to try to match up that point so I'm going through and just watching where the split is in my foot here and we're going to try to make sure that we hit it dead on a presser foot down I've started just a little bit up on the fabric because otherwise it might bunch up so I'm just going to start here before it back stitch and away we go and I'm going to try to hit it so we're right on that point there [Music] and we have another one sewn together open it up and there we have it and then you can just come over and you can just use your fingers to press a little pin and there we go have we've attached another piece so you'll notice that when you go along you'll see that one is going in this direction and the next one will go in the opposite direction and then to clean up her Aegis for using this for the rope baskets just come in and take off the little corners and there's your finished joint now you'll be able to make more professional fabric wrapped ruffles that you will be proud of anyone to give as gifts or even sell them I will soon be posting this video so if you don't want to miss out click that little bell icon and it was sent a notification to let you know but I've just posted another video so I hope I have inspired you to do a little crafting till next time bye bye [Music]

Channel: Crafty Patti

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Length: 11min 7sec (667 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 22 2019