I absolutely love your teaching method. Everyone seems to go so fast, or doesn't explain the tools. I'm very thankful you took your time to make these videos. There are a lot of creative home sewers, who can't afford college or classes. Your videos are very understandable for ''hands on'' learners! :) Which is rare! thank you, I've learned SO much, and I'm not wasting as much fabric!!lol
Absolutely love this site!!! So many great helpful videos that take the time to explain so a new sewer can understand. I made 2 fat quarters of bias tape yesterday with this video!!! Thank you so much. Have a great day. You've made mine.
OMG....I have tried for ages to figure out how to use this bias tape make to no avail. How simple it is! Thank you for explaining this tool. Can not believe how simple it is!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. This is so professionally done and so easy to understand. I've been making my own bias tape for a while, but I've been wasting a lot of fabric and burning my fingers. You are a great teacher!
I have just purchased a set of bias tape makers in 4 sizes. Thank you for showing exactly how to use them (they came with no explanation). I make my own ties for bags for walkers, and the 2" strips make the perfect size for ties. Good video, thank you!
At first was a little hesitant because I learned a different way at school.... But this is much easier! She's very clear with the lesson and can't wait to make my own bias tape again
I don't know why not. As long as the silk setting of your iron is enough to give you proper creases when you press it. If so, I say go for it. I'm sure this will look really nice.
You explain each step fully. So glad that I found you. I am a beginner sewer/quilter. So far, I have just been practicing using the mats and rotary cutter. I will be watching your tutorials for more ideas. Keep up the good work.
I was taught to point your fabric to get it to feed through the bias tape maker more easily so I would skip squaring off the ends as you suggested. I’ve tried feeding the straight ( flat end ) and found it is much more difficult than threading a point through the tool ( the way I was taught we even made a skinnier point if we were making narrow tape so we increased the angle after cutting the strip instead of cutting it off. I thought someone having issues feeding might want to try it the way I learned….and you don’t need an awl or anything extra to get it started.
I learned to make bias tape from a pattern I no longer have! Thanks for the great refresher course. Its probably been 6 to 8 years since I've been able to get back to the fun side of sewing. I'll be following you for my future projects too.
To save time you can just use your clear ruler to measure your width and run your rotary cutter along your ruler. It saves a lot of time and comes out perfect! No need for seam guide or caulk!
I was thinking the same thing. Unnecessary to mark it. Just line it up with the ruler. Also, cutting off the angled ends isn't necessary. Just line up the angles and sew.
I went to a bias tape class at Joann fabrics and the instructor was horrible. I should of just found your You Tube channel and saved myself $30 and 2 hours of my time. I subscribed to your channel because your a good teacher
Thanks for this great tutorial! I've always want to learn how to make my own bias tape, but didn't have the confidence. I have always bought pre-packaged bias tape. I have to give it a try! The advantage to making your own bias tape is the variety of colors and prints to chose from and not having to stick to limited solid colors.
Thank you for sharing your skill. I am still new to sewing, and was wondering if I already have stretchy fabric, do I still need to cut at the bias or can I just cut straight strips and sew them together? Thank you for taking the time to answer my question.
Love the tutorials from Professor Pincushion! I have to comment on something I see though. The first measurement is on a fold, so I am thinking that you will need to cut that piece in TWO.
Why did you mark the fabric? Why did you not use the vertical marks on your ruler? And for finding the bias, why not use the mark on your cutting mat rather than do the fold thing? Just curious.
Hello Professor. Thanks for another helpful tutorial. I note that some commercial apparel uses bias tape rather than a facing at neck and shoulder. Would you please show us how that is done? Best wishes.
I am still fairly new to sewing and would like to hold off on specialty notions. Is there a way to do this without having a bias maker? Maybe measuring in a half inch on both sides, marking, pinning and then ironing it as in the video? Any advice you could offer if I were to do this by hand?
Yes, you can totally do it by hand! Look at this blog where they just used a couple of straight pins to help, instead of a bias tape maker. good luck! bee-inspired.blogspot.com/2011/05/bias-tape-tutorial-without-bias-tape.html
I have a question. Most bias tape I've bought has one side of the fold larger than the other side so that its easier to catch the underside of the bias tape when top-stitching onto my project. Since this tape is equally folded, how do you sew it so that both sides are caught when top-stitching it down? This is always the trouble I have when sewing on bias tape and I have always avoided using it because of the frustration. Any advice from other viewers would be appreciated. Thanks for the video.
Karolina Gogarowska which one? I have the sewing gauge, which is the small rule with the slider and a clear plastic rule...which I think is called just that :)
LoL, i wanted to make my own bias tape but i dont have any of the equipment you have to make my own,its very hard to cut long strips with scizzors,but Joanns always have a 50 percent off one item, soon very soon i'll get all the goodies, thank you the videos.
Hmmm. Why don’t you place the fabric on the diagonal using the diagonal line on your mat? Why mark? Use your see-through ruler and align at two inches. Why was the first cut two inches; you now have to cut it in half since you cut it on the fold. I’m usually a big, big fan of your site, but I think this one missed its mark.
Is anyone else confused as to why that first folded piece is cut at two inches? It seems to me that would make that first piece 4 inches wide? What am I missed?
Seems awfully laborious. Why not just line up the ruler to the two inch point form the edge of the fabric and rotary cut directly instead of marking with chalk and then using the ruler? Also - you didn't mention that you need to cut the fold strip in half…. pretty mission critical for a beginner I should think. Also - weird technique for joining the strips. Why not just join on the angle instead of cutting the fabric to a right angle and then sewing at an angle. Seems to be a lot of wasted effort
I notice each teacher has an unique style or method. Reason why I watch many videos if I don't understand I jump to another. So far I am very frustrated with previous teachers since this days they teach in high speed mode or more worry about them looking good in front of the camera, rambling on and on instead of focusing on the actual step or tutorial. I am at the point of just paying for the strips and trashing my tape maker. Professor Pin Cushion is more beginner friendly even do she does jump a lot from one thing to another and confuses the heck out of me but so far I been rewinding many times as I can to follow her more simple methods.
So am I the only one confused about your first cut? You folded the fabric then measured and marked 2” in. When it unfolds it will be 4”. This technique also makes several short pieces that have to be individually sewn. A much better method is to make continuous bias tape. You mark your lines then sew 2 seams creating a tube that you then cut apart in one long strip. There are several videos that teach this.
Ugh...I'm new to sewing. I was following step by step, pausing the video to catch up. I REALLY wish you mentioned "right sides together" before sewing OR used fabric with obvious "right" and "wrong" sides!!
No….. you don’t cut off the triangles! You sew them together, you are cutting it off and then sewing it on the diagonal, when the strips already had a diagonal end! Wasted time and material.
I absolutely love your teaching method. Everyone seems to go so fast, or doesn't explain the tools. I'm very thankful you took your time to make these videos. There are a lot of creative home sewers, who can't afford college or classes. Your videos are very understandable for ''hands on'' learners! :) Which is rare! thank you, I've learned SO much, and I'm not wasting as much fabric!!lol
I'm also running out to buy a mat, a ruler AND a rotary right NOW! :D
yay! I'm so glad you found our tutorials helpful :)
Thanks for the kind words! I worked in a fabric store for three years as well. My pocketbook is in a much better place since I've left. :)
Right side facing UP on both trips perpendicular. Great video.
Absolutely love this site!!! So many great helpful videos that take the time to explain so a new sewer can understand. I made 2 fat quarters of bias tape yesterday with this video!!! Thank you so much. Have a great day. You've made mine.
Charlie Haraldson aw, thanks so much for the kind words! :)
OMG....I have tried for ages to figure out how to use this bias tape make to no avail. How simple it is! Thank you for explaining this tool. Can not believe how simple it is!
Thank you so much. I'm glad that you found our tutorial helpful and hopefully your fingers can now recover from the burns. :)
Thank you, thank you, thank you. This is so professionally done and so easy to understand. I've been making my own bias tape for a while, but I've been wasting a lot of fabric and burning my fingers. You are a great teacher!
I have just purchased a set of bias tape makers in 4 sizes. Thank you for showing exactly how to use them (they came with no explanation). I make my own ties for bags for walkers, and the 2" strips make the perfect size for ties. Good video, thank you!
Great to hear! Thanks for the kind words.
@CLH825 Thank you! We're so glad you found our tutorials helpful. :)
Thank you for showing each little step. As a rookie to sewing this was the most helpful video I have watched :)
Glad to here we were able to refresh your memory. Have fun sewing again! :)
You have a great teaching method. Thank you for helping me understand how to make my own bias tape.
Very clear and concise. Thank you, Professor Pincushion!
At first was a little hesitant because I learned a different way at school.... But this is much easier! She's very clear with the lesson and can't wait to make my own bias tape again
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed our tutorial :)
Fab! I'm just learning to sew and found a project that requires bias tape. This tutorial got me through the process of making my own easily!
Great video! Very clear and concise. Your directions were right on and step by step. Thankyou so much!
I'm glad you enjoyed our tutorial. Thanks for watching! :)
Thanks for the very informative video.
I don't know why not. As long as the silk setting of your iron is enough to give you proper creases when you press it. If so, I say go for it. I'm sure this will look really nice.
You explain each step fully. So glad that I found you. I am a beginner sewer/quilter. So far, I have just been practicing using the mats and rotary cutter. I will be watching your tutorials for more ideas. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad you're enjoying our tutorials.
I was taught to point your fabric to get it to feed through the bias tape maker more easily so I would skip squaring off the ends as you suggested. I’ve tried feeding the straight ( flat end ) and found it is much more difficult than threading a point through the tool ( the way I was taught we even made a skinnier point if we were making narrow tape so we increased the angle after cutting the strip instead of cutting it off. I thought someone having issues feeding might want to try it the way I learned….and you don’t need an awl or anything extra to get it started.
I learned to make bias tape from a pattern I no longer have! Thanks for the great refresher course. Its probably been 6 to 8 years since I've been able to get back to the fun side of sewing. I'll be following you for my future projects too.
You're an awesome professor! Lol seriously though you're amazing, great teacher. Thank you!😊
+jamiekrista thank you so much for the kind words! :)
Thank for your tutorial. I have learned so much by watching it.
To save time you can just use your clear ruler to measure your width and run your rotary cutter along your ruler. It saves a lot of time and comes out perfect! No need for seam guide or caulk!
Then you show us!
I was thinking the same thing. Unnecessary to mark it. Just line it up with the ruler. Also, cutting off the angled ends isn't necessary. Just line up the angles and sew.
I went to a bias tape class at Joann fabrics and the instructor was horrible. I should of just found your You Tube channel and saved myself $30 and 2 hours of my time. I subscribed to your channel because your a good teacher
thanks for subscribing! :)
Thank you so much for your kind words! :)
You really deliver it well, God bless you
It's 35" X 23" and purchased at JoAnn Fabrics
Thank goodness for these easy to follow tutorial!!
Thanks for this great tutorial! I've always want to learn how to make my own bias tape, but didn't have the confidence. I have always bought pre-packaged bias tape. I have to give it a try! The advantage to making your own bias tape is the variety of colors and prints to chose from and not having to stick to limited solid colors.
have you ever considered making a continuous bias strip...saves a LOT of time and there's tons of tutorials out there.
Just bought a bias tape maker yesterday. Thank you 😊
Great tutorial!!! I am making my first quilt. This helped tremendously!!!!
yay! I'm so glad you found our tutorial helpful.
Great tutorial. Easy for a new sewer like me to understand.
glad you found it helpful
That was a very clear and extremely useful tutorial. Thankyou!
Thank you so much :)
I picked it up at joann's but you should be able to get it at any fabric store.
Thank you so much. Your tutorial was easy to follow.
Thank you for sharing your skill. I am still new to sewing, and was wondering if I already have stretchy fabric, do I still need to cut at the bias or can I just cut straight strips and sew them together?
Thank you for taking the time to answer my question.
+Just Maria for stretchy fabric, you don't have to cut it on the bias :)
Your very first cut would have ended up being 4" since you cut 2" on the fold. Did you skip a step for cutting the fold off?
Love the tutorials from Professor Pincushion! I have to comment on something I see though. The first measurement is on a fold, so I am thinking that you will need to cut that piece in TWO.
alice williams yes, you're correct. the first one is on a fold so you have to cut it in half so all the bias is the same width. thanks!
Love it. So easy to understand....great job
After I cut the first piece, I just cut on the foldline so they all end up the same width.
Why did you mark the fabric? Why did you not use the vertical marks on your ruler? And for finding the bias, why not use the mark on your cutting mat rather than do the fold thing? Just curious.
What model is your bias tape maker, and how much are they ? Thank you, you’ve done a marvellous job.
This is really awesome thanks for the tutorial I just bought the tape maker.
Just finished 400cm of bias tape thanks to this tutorial! Thank you so much : )
Thank you great video. What size is your mat please
Hello Professor. Thanks for another helpful tutorial. I note that some commercial apparel uses bias tape rather than a facing at neck and shoulder. Would you please show us how that is done? Best wishes.
What a nice job you did! I'm going to get the folder soon!
Great video, easy to follow !! Subscribed!!!
Thanks
Tiera Woods yay, thanks for subscribing :)
How do you stop it from wrinkling when sewing it around a quilt?
I have always wanted to make my own bias. Great tutorial.
I am still fairly new to sewing and would like to hold off on specialty notions. Is there a way to do this without having a bias maker? Maybe measuring in a half inch on both sides, marking, pinning and then ironing it as in the video? Any advice you could offer if I were to do this by hand?
Yes, you can totally do it by hand! Look at this blog where they just used a couple of straight pins to help, instead of a bias tape maker. good luck! bee-inspired.blogspot.com/2011/05/bias-tape-tutorial-without-bias-tape.html
U r teaching so nicely thankyou
Is your rotary cutter the heavy duty kind. I love how you show the easier ways to get projects done quickly
Nope, it's just a regular fiskars one I picked up at JoAnn's.
ok thanks so much
That fabric is super cool o:
Thanks a lot for the tutorial.It was helpful..
I love this. Bias tape maker is on my shopping list :)
Excellent tutorial......Thank you !
I have a question. Most bias tape I've bought has one side of the fold larger than the other side so that its easier to catch the underside of the bias tape when top-stitching onto my project. Since this tape is equally folded, how do you sew it so that both sides are caught when top-stitching it down? This is always the trouble I have when sewing on bias tape and I have always avoided using it because of the frustration. Any advice from other viewers would be appreciated. Thanks for the video.
This was a great tutorial and very helpful, thanks!
Finally learnt how to make bias tape .
wouldn't cutting your strip 2 inches wide make 1/2 inch bias tape?
There’s single fold and double fold so May depend on how many folds
This tutorial is brilliant. Very well explained and easy to follow. Thank you for that! What is the name of this clever measuring tool?
Karolina Gogarowska which one? I have the sewing gauge, which is the small rule with the slider and a clear plastic rule...which I think is called just that :)
thanks for your tutorial. really beautiful..........
Excellent video... Thanks for posting it.
Waar kan ik on snijbloemen kopen of wat is de juiste benaming
thank you mam you are a good teacher
This is off topic...How big is your mat? Where did you purchase the mat?
LoL, i wanted to make my own bias tape but i dont have any of the equipment you have to make my own,its very hard to cut long strips with scizzors,but Joanns always have a 50 percent off one item, soon very soon i'll get all the goodies, thank you the videos.
Thank you so much!!
Hmmm. Why don’t you place the fabric on the diagonal using the diagonal line on your mat? Why mark? Use your see-through ruler and align at two inches. Why was the first cut two inches; you now have to cut it in half since you cut it on the fold. I’m usually a big, big fan of your site, but I think this one missed its mark.
I noticed your first cut would have been double width as you cut it on the fold. Is this correct?
yes, you have to cut on the fold to get to separate pieces. sorry for the confusion
Thanks! :)
Can you use silk for this?
thank you or sharing, where can I buy the bias tape maker?
Oh thank you God, a good video on bias tape making without that nauseating guitar and chime music!!!
Thanks for helping....
génial, merci !
thanks! :)
Very helpful!!!
Its just awesome, thank u so much
Thanks for watching!
How much bias tape did you make out of that one bit of fabric
I think I got about 3 yards
This vid was great to the point, not a lot of blah blahs, thanksabunch.
That's helpful.
Is anyone else confused as to why that first folded piece is cut at two inches? It seems to me that would make that first piece 4 inches wide? What am I missed?
Thank you.
Seems awfully laborious. Why not just line up the ruler to the two inch point form the edge of the fabric and rotary cut directly instead of marking with chalk and then using the ruler? Also - you didn't mention that you need to cut the fold strip in half…. pretty mission critical for a beginner I should think. Also - weird technique for joining the strips. Why not just join on the angle instead of cutting the fabric to a right angle and then sewing at an angle.
Seems to be a lot of wasted effort
Why don't you show us how to to it the perfect way?
I notice each teacher has an unique style or method. Reason why I watch many videos if I don't understand I jump to another. So far I am very frustrated with previous teachers since this days they teach in high speed mode or more worry about them looking good in front of the camera, rambling on and on instead of focusing on the actual step or tutorial. I am at the point of just paying for the strips and trashing my tape maker. Professor Pin Cushion is more beginner friendly even do she does jump a lot from one thing to another and confuses the heck out of me but so far I been rewinding many times as I can to follow her more simple methods.
suziequeue1964 I was thinking the very same thing.
Ohhhh, that's why it's called BIAS tape! :D Thanks for the vid.
where do i buy bias tape maker please i have look for one but can't get it
It's usually in the notions department at a fabric store. You can also order them online: www.joann.com/search?q=bias%20tape%20maker
If your ruler has 2" markings, you don't need to mark anything.
Yup. That first cut is definitely 4 inches. There are mistakes all thru video
Thank Thee :-)
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Beautiful.........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So am I the only one confused about your first cut? You folded the fabric then measured and marked 2” in. When it unfolds it will be 4”. This technique also makes several short pieces that have to be individually sewn.
A much better method is to make continuous bias tape. You mark your lines then sew 2 seams creating a tube that you then cut apart in one long strip. There are several videos that teach this.
Maybe the technique you describe is newer. This video is several years old.
Ugh...I'm new to sewing. I was following step by step, pausing the video to catch up. I REALLY wish you mentioned "right sides together" before sewing OR used fabric with obvious "right" and "wrong" sides!!
No….. you don’t cut off the triangles! You sew them together, you are cutting it off and then sewing it on the diagonal, when the strips already had a diagonal end! Wasted time and material.