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How to Make Bias Binding From a Square of Fabric

Bias bindings are absolutely essential for quilts and other sewing projects that have rounded corners or curved edges. Still, how to make a bias binding can seem a mystery, especially to those who are still fairly new to sewing. In reality, you can make a bias binding in just a few steps and with tool you likely already have in your sewing kit.

Things You'll Need

Fabric
Marking pen
Sewing machine and thread
Transparent ruler
Scissors

Instructions

- 1
  Lay out the square piece of fabric on a flat surface. Cut the fabric square in half diagonally.
- 2
  Place the triangle shaped pieces with their right sides together and the points of the triangles facing left. Pin along the edge on the right side and stitch using a ¼-inch seam allowance. Press the seam open with a hot iron. Open the fabric so that it makes a rhombus shape with the sewn edge in the middle of the shape.
- 3
  Use a transparent ruler to make lines across the wrong sides of the fabric every 2¼ inches.
- 4
  Finish marking the piece and fold the right sides together, forming a tube. Line up the marked lines, leaving one line extending beyond the edge on each side of the tube.
- 5
  Pin the edges together and stitch them using a ¼-inch seam allowance. Press the seam open with a hot iron.
- 6
  Begin cutting on one of the marked lines on the edge. Continue cutting on the lines to create the continuous bias binding.

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