How To Binding, Quilt Binding, Bias Binding, Quilt Blog | going batty! Grab a 1/2 yard of fabric and join me as I show you step-by-step, the easy way to cut bias binding strips. The strips will be pre-mitered so there will be no marking or trimming later! It’s like magic… Remove the selvages from a ½ yard cut of fabric. Unfold the fabric and lay it on a cutting mat with the wrong side facing up. Take the bottom right hand corner of the fabric and bring it up to meet the top edge of the fabric forming a triangle.
Make sure the top edges are even. Take the top left hand corner and bring it down toward the middle of the fabric until… … the edges meet in the middle. Rotate the fabric until it lays horizontal on a mat line. Using a Rotary Cutter and a 24 1/2″ long Creative Grids Ruler, cut off approximately 4 inches from the point to clean cut the fabric and remove the section that is too small to use for binding. Next, rotate your cutting mat or walk around to the other side of the table and cut a 2 ½” strip from where you just clean cut. BONUS! A {SWEET} bias binding tutorial. I love to do my bindings on the bias. Especially stripes. It's like a candy cane wrapping around the edge of my quilt.
So cute! Yes, it does take a little more fabric, but not much. Here is an easy trick for cutting your fabric [FAST] on the bias. You just have to figure out how to fold the fabric and then the cutting part is easy. First, lay down your fabric at an angle with the right side of the fabric facing DOWN. Next, take the left corner of the fabric and fold it over so that it makes a "right angle" on the left side of the first fold. Then take the right corner of fabric and fold it over, making a "right angle" on the right side. Cut off the folds. Then cut your strips the desired widths you like. Cut off the angled ends. Connect the strips: lay two strips on top of each other {with right sides together} so that they're ends are perpendicular to each other.
Iron in half lengthwise with wrong sides together. To miter corners: sew up to 1/4" away from the first corner. Now you're done. TUTORIAL: How to Cut Bias in One Continuous Strip. Only have small scraps left of that favorite fabric? Want to conserve on that expensive print and accent your article with bias trim? This tutorial will show you how - it's very easy! First, what is Bias? Bias indicates the direction of a piece of woven fabric, usually referred to simply as "the bias" or "the cross-grain" (UK term). Woven fabric is more elastic as well as more fluid in the bias direction, compared to the on-grain direction.
The "bias-cut" is a technique used by designers for cutting clothing to utilize the greater stretch in the bias or diagonal direction of the fabric, thereby causing it to accentuate body lines and curves and drape softly. A garment made of woven fabric is said to be "cut on the bias" when the fabric's warp and weft threads are at 45 degrees to its major seam lines. Note: The term "cross-grain" in the US refers to the direction perpendicular to the length-of-grain (selvage edges), not the diagonal. 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.) 11.) 12.)
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