Cut interfacingto the length of your waist measurement and the desired width of your waistband. Iron this onto your waistband fabric. Cut additional interfacing stripsto reinforce the zipper area. Sewing the Sk
TIP: How wide to cut strips for bias tape? For single-fold bias binding, cut the fabric twice the finished size. For double-fold bias binding, cut the fabric strips four times the desired finished size. Step 4 - Join the Strips Now we'll sew the pieces together to make them the righ...
Fold and press them into double-fold bias strips for durability. Attaching the Binding: Sew the binding to the front of the quilt first, then fold it over to the back and sew it in place by hand or machine. I often find a quiet corner and hand-sew the binding, finding the rhythm ...
Note: There are several other ways to cut yards of continuous bias strips, but for small projects like a pillow this is really fast. There is also a handy tool called theBinding Buddy(affiliate) that makes this process even faster. Cut out the strips using the cutting lines as your guide...
Use red thread to sew 2 packages of bias tape together to form 1 long strip for binding. With right sides together, open 1 folded side of bias tape and place raw edge along raw edge of quilt. Sew bias tape, mitering corners and overlapping ends. Turn bias tape to back of quilt and ...
Sewing binding corners Bias tape neck and armhole finishing Measure around your pillow, or whatever you are making, to determine how much piping you need. Use the bias tape calculator to cut just the right size, always remembering to add on a little extra for overlap. You'll need to cut ...
bias tape when there’s obviously two pressed edges ;) But with the double fold bias tape, like you saw in the bias binding tutorials, you basically get one of these strips that’s then pressed in half lengthwise. So for bias facing make sure you get the single fold. For this apron ...
Add the small pocket you made in Part 1 of the sew along to the back and sew at 1/4″. Step Three: Applying bias tape and closing the small backpack For the next step on closing the small backpack, we need to make bias tape that is long enough to cover all the exposed seam allow...
Check out the post on how to calculate and cut bias binding tape and binding with bias tape for more details on this Method 4 – Mitered corner with a Border This method is used when you need to make a border for the fabric with a different coloured / patterned fabric than the main fa...
How I figured it out: 54″ wide fabric cut into 2″ strips (wide enough to cover the cord + seam allowance) will yield 27 strips. If I bought 1 yard, that’d be 27 one yard strips (which doesn’t account for seam allowances to sew them all together). Not quite enough for 30 ...