Bias tape has a multitude of uses. Fact: I LOVE bias tape! But store bought tape can have its limitations in terms of colour, quality and width. This won’t be a problem once you’ve learned how to make bias tape of your own, though. You’ll create bias binding quickly and easily to match perfectly with baby bibs, lightweight sweaters, quilting projects, and more! Whether you use it as binding, facing, or piping, custom made bias lends a touch of quality to your sewing in a way that it’s “off the peg” cousin can’t quite manage.

Step 1:

Start with a bias strip the right width for your bias maker. (Want an easy way to
make bias strips? See here). With the strip RS down/WS facing up, insert one end of the
strip into the widest end of the bias gadget ensuring the fabric strip is as central as
possible…..

Step 2:

Gradually feed the fabric strip along . I find it helps to use something pointy to
help it along…

Step 3:

Feed it through until juuuuust a teeny bit pops out the end of your bias maker

Step 4:

Press the tip of the strip as it pokes through…

Step 5:

Take hold of the handle of the gadget and gently slide it along the fabric strip
about a centimeter at a time, pressing as you go

Step 6:

Keep going all the way to the end of the strip. Slide the gadget along the strip a
centimeter then press. Slide it along another centimeter then press, and so on; until you’ve
gone the length of your bias strip…

…and there you have it…nice neat bias tape ready to use on your next sewing project 🙂

You want a bias tape maker of your own now, don’t you?

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Portia lives in a sleepy Essex "backwater" with her partner, 6 year old son and 15 year old stepson. She loves her family, hazelnut lattes, Indian food, singing into hairbrushes (no, she never grew out of that) and making stuff! Her passion for all things creative goes waaay back to her childhood, but it is only since the birth of her son that she began to really indulge her creativity. From dressmaking to jewellery to furniture DIYs to rediscovering her love of drawing. Virtually, any spare moment she has will be spent in her summerhouse, listening to Radio 2 or Spotify, drinking copious amounts of coffee and, well, making something! She’s been blogging since 2009. Feel free to stop by and say hello some time.

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