Bias Binding instructions

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CUTTING A CONTINUOUS BIAS

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Instructions

 

• Start with a rectangular, square, or long narrow piece of cloth.
  
• Fold one corner, C, to get 5 true bias B E..
  
• Cut through the fold, B E. Make a parallelogram by joining straight edges (those of equal length) BC and AD with the seam on the wrong side of the material. Stitch and press seam open.
  
• On the wrong side of the material, draw pencil lines the width desired for the bias -1¼" or 1½" Begin at one bias edge, as at the left, and mark across toward the bias edge on the right.
  
• Seem straight edges together, making a tube of the cloth.
• With the material wrong side up, grasp the lower left and upper right-hand corner. Turn over and bring together the straight edges, with one corner of the cloth the width of the Bias (1¼ or 1½”) beyond the other. Pencil lines will meef, except at corners. Stitch and press the seam apart.
• Cut along the penciled marks and you will have a continuous bias.
• Place cord inside a fold of bias. Stitch, using a long machine stitch and a cording foot.
  
• One yard of 35“ material will cut about 20 Yards of bias 1½ wide.
• One-quarter yard of 40" material will cut about 10 yards of bias 1¼" wide