I’m sure that there are many good tutorials of how to use this little super gadget out there on the web. But since we have been on the subject of bias strips I thought I may as well follow up with a brief explanation of my own to round things off nicely on this particular subject….
Placing RS together with the top strip perpendicular to the one underneath, pin like so….
Sew diagonally left to right, (corner to corner if you imagine as a square, the area where the two strips overlap) at a 45 degree angle…
Press the stitching line, then press the seam allowance open, then press the seam on the RS too…
Trim seam allowance close to the stitching….
The RS……
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…..
Gradually feed the fabric strip along until it pokes it’s little nose out the other end of the gadget (I found that the strip would sometimes get stuck a little way along so I gently poked the tips of my thread snips through the gap along the centre of the bias gadget to help move it along)…
Press the tip of the strip as it pokes through…
Then pin in place on the ironing board…
Take hold of the handle of the gadget and gently slide it along the fabric strip…
…bit by bit, pressing as you go….the first bit is the trickiest….
Keep going all the way to the end of the strip. Depending on how long it is you may have to shift it along the ironing board and re-pin it several times along the length of the strip…and there you have it…nice neat bias tape ready to use on your next sewing project 🙂
Toodle pip!
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