Make Over 5m of Bias Binding from 1 Fat Quarter:: by Babs at Babs Gets Crafty

I know fabric jugglers its Babs here for my fiery Phoenix and today I'm going to take you through a simple tutorial to create over five meters well over five yards of half-inch double fold bias binding from a single fat quarter and what makes this even better is that this technique only uses two cups and two seams there's lots of pressing but we can't take pressing a level and creating our bias binding but that's what today's tutorial is about so hopefully you'll stick around and have a look at how we create that so here we are with our fact quarter and what we're going to be doing is constructing and a long length of bias binding using a fat quarter and traditionally people would cut off slices of the fat course and manually and then attach them and individually but what we're going to do is they're going to create a twisted tube so that it's a giant spiral so that as we cut through it we end up with one really long piece of bias binding so what we're going to need to do this is obviously a fat quarter presenta need scissors we won't be using the rotary cutter for this particular technique a pencil and because everything is going to be done on an inverse of a fabric and it's going to be folded in on top of itself I'm not too fussed about using an actual pencil rather than and I water erasable marker or some chalk obviously you can use chalk you can use and the amazing markers or erasable markers but for this instance I'm not too fussed and it's gonna be perfectly fine for me to use pencil and these will need to have a ruler so that you can measure and Mark the width of your bias binding and I've got my and pressing board so that I can press open the do things that we'll be creating in this method you only have to create your two seams whereas if you cut out individual strips you then have to assemble them off again which is much more time-consuming so whilst this might seem a little bit confusing to begin with overall it really really isn't what we're going to do is we're going to work with our selvage on the right and we're going to have and the cost grain across the base of our board and we will take the farthest corner away and fold that down which will give us a 45 degree angle and we can double check this by just looking at it against the 45 degree line on our measuring board hopefully you can you can see that there and that actually is a very nice 45 degree angle now you could press that or you could just simply cut now I'm just going to cut along it I don't really feel need to press that you hold it tight with one hand and then we cut a little fold and that scissors and this gives us a lovely 45-degree angle and we will soon be in the position to sew Alfa's seams screens were practically gone there's only two seams to do in the whole thing so we now have our original square and what we're going to do is move this along so that we create a parallelogram so I won't move this cross I have right edges together got the right sides together I play this this pattern makes it very easy to see where those right sides and wrong sides start to sew this seam in I'm actually using my quarter inch foot to make sure that I am as accurate with all my measurements as possible throughout this project and I'm going to be using a stitch length of 1/2 I just want to make sure that I've got as much stitching in place because everything is going to be sliced through so I'll give you short connections and once this has been finished so we'll just pop that under here holding this face there and transfer it and here just the edging accordingly as you go along to make sure that everything is lined up neatly so now I'm going to press these terms open we've got our parallelogram so if you want to know how to make one of these person boards I can give you the link but the first thing we're going to do is set the same and then press it open I'll try to take a long tool and will also fill away the excess nodes much easier if you have long nails I don't this week but let's still won't make it impossible okay so now that is pass open you can move on to the next stage which is marking out and lines so this these will become our cutting noise once once we've mopped this all off and I'm going to trim away a slight excess and run along here okay so we're going to flip this over to the other side and where we've already got our lovely 45 degree angle I'm going to use that and I'm going to mark in the width of the bias binding strips that will be cutting as we're making half-inch wide double folded bias tape now we're going to need to cut this at two inch widths so we'll simply measure along the two inch line along by a seat that we already have along the Vice edge that we already have let me up and then drawing our cutting line one of the things that we should really be keep in mind is that we want to use a thin narrow and nib on whatever we're using a fat chalk I want to be very helpful and because we then lose the accuracy of our cut something one more for you fit on through and come back to you in a moment so now that we have all of our stripes marks across the the breadth of this parallelogram across this this piece of our fabric we've got our vertical seam we've got our two grey line sides and we've got our two angled - sides all we need to do is trim away this excess it's not not even it's narrower this end than that and also it's not wide enough to to be in use in our and and our binding strip so just quickly snip that away so that's still piece of bias it's just not and then you can see the stretch it's just not going to be any use for this particular project so what we now need to do is join these sides together and and we're not going to join them like this because then we'd simply be cutting off rings of fabric what we will be doing is offsetting them so that we then have two tails either side and then we're going to join up the other lines however we're not going to join them like this so that they match when they laid out and then we pick them up and they they won't match then so what we're going to be doing the first thing I'm going to do is stick a pin in either end we do not want these tails connecting to anything and by popping a pin on the end that should remind us so one more time what we do is fold one end up we have a pin we fold the other end and we have a pin and then we simply pull those two pinned ends one roll over I think that's the easiest way to get everything to line up initially and what we now need to do is take our pins and a quarter of an inch down and now if you're not only good at working out half our quarter inches you can draw a quarter of an inch line on either side or what you're going to do is put a pin in at the quarter of an inch mark and then on the other side you're going to put the pin through again at the course of the quarter of an inch lock and that is where those things will then join up so we'll do that one more time so we'll take a quarter of an inch it I will take a quarter of an inch this side and we'll put a pins through and that will give us our mark for crossing over and lining everything up as you see these this now lines up very nicely the same so what we're going to do is if I can get this in focus you should be able to see we've got one line here which we've already pinned we have another line here which we're going to pin and we have another line on this side we get that in the light that that we will be using to pin from the reverse so the first thing we do is we grab a pin and we come down coolship an inch on this first line which is around here and then we take the matching line on the reverse of the fabric you can get that game shot let's see if we can find that now we're getting it to reflect there we go and then we put this through again quarter of an inch down put the matching line and then once that pin is through we can fold the fabric down and pin it in place and as you can see we don't have any excess fabric we don't have any any lumps or bumps along that edge line once we've got everything cleaned in place it's just making it accurate for the first time and then we've got one last one to do just so you can see that in close-up one last time see if we can get that to that line showing on camera for you now so we put the pink pin in quarter of an inch down turn the fabric over and match it another quarter of an inch down pull them square and then we're done and then we have one last which we can just pin in place it's nowhere else for it to go now that we have everything in place we can remove those extra pins from the two tails and it looks wonky it is Anki because we're creating a spiral so what we're going to do is just fold that out the way and run a quarter inch seam down the side and this is the only other sign that we need to do for this project and we are almost done again keeping the stitch length to one and a half in this case I will be just back tacking to make sure it's all secure for a start and in removing the pins as going on this edge now that is all of the sewing done and week it should be able to see that these lines are now working together they're now lining up and so we're just going to press this open and then we can start cutting just just be very gentle as we yeah as you work with it now that everything is is twisted and omneya on the bias now that that has been opened out that scene what we're going to do is cut along the line that we have already marked the line that we put through as individual lines should now relieve itself is one continuous length of winding the first length part of converting our flats open binding into a usable form of bias binding this is a double fold bias so what we're going to do is to start off by pressing it half way and try not to stretch it or put tension on it or else you'll end up with a bias that's walking will be not as easy to use won't be as effective if you've stretched it out of alignment so be gentle don't don't force anything to happen just kind of go with the fabric and once you have pressed the entire length in half or will then come back open it out and press everything into the center so now we have our completed piece of bias binding it has been folded it's be impressed and it's been folded back on itself one final time so hopefully having followed this process you've found it very useful I have indeed only used two cups and only two seams although there is still an awful lot of pressing but hopefully you found this useful and I'll be using this in the next tutorial which is coming up for a kimono wrap part of the pajama fairy's project but I'll give you more information on that next time around but for now hopefully and this has perf useful and I will see you again sing live now

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Length: 17min 43sec (1063 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 18 2016