Learn How To Make Your Own Bias Tape
We all know how costly materials for sewing and crafting can get. Bias tape is one of the items that some crafters use a lot of, learn how to make it easily and inexpensively. Learn how to make bias tape for pennies. So many projects can be finished with binding. I have used a 13.5 inch square piece of fabric this will make about 3.5 yards or 124 inches of bias tape. If you need large amounts I have included a link to a page that explains and illustrates how to make yards of continuous bias tape.
Step 1
Start with a square piece of fabric cut on the straight grain of your fabric. My fabric is 13.5 inches square. Take the A corner and fold it over towards the B corner. Iron your fold on the fabric from the C to the D corner. Open your fabric and cut on the ironed fold. Step 2
Lay your cut piece of fabric flat, you will cut along the diagonal line C To D. With a ruler mark your cutting lines at desired width. I cut my strips at 1 1/2 inches wide, for a finished bias tape measuring 1/4 inch. Adjust your cutting width according to your desired finished width. 
Now take 2 strips and place them right sides facing up as illustrated in the photo. Step 3
Take the Right hand strip in the above photo and turn it onto the left hand strip right sides facing each other as in photo at right. Sew together as indicated in photo. Use a very narrow seam about 1/8 inch. Step 4
When all of your strips are sewn together iron the seams flat. Now fold your stip in half and iron the full length of it. Step 5
With the wrong side of your project facing up, lay your bias strip on your project raw edges together. Sew a seam about 1/8 inch from edge. If you would like to make a wider seam then allow for this when you are cutting your bias strips. Adjust as needed. 
Iron your seam up onto the bias strip as shown in photo. Finishing
Now fold the bias tape just to cover the stiching line and top stich in place. This is a very easy way to make and apply Bias Tape binding. Great Stuff on Amazon
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Sewing Gauge
- Sewing Gauge
- This link will bring to a site where you can see the image of a sewing gauge along with a "Where to buy" tab.
Continuous Bias Tape Instructions
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- Bias By The Yard
- This site has very clear instructions on creating continuous bias tape. It also has a chart with amounts of bias tape that can be made with different widths of fabric. There is a list of different bias tape makers ranging from 1/4 inch up to 2 inches.
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For the Etsy Fans
Bias Tape Maker
- Bias At Etsy
- This bias tape maker is on an Etsy shop. Etsy has a wide variety of very unique items. The Etsy pledge is "all things handmade"
Reader Feedback
Tiddledeewinks wrote...
I used to use lots of bias tape when my daughter was young and I made most all her clothes. I used the bias tape in the inside wrist area as a casing for elastic.
Posted November 01, 2008
