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CONTINUOUS BIAS BINDING 101 TUTORIAL

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Long, long time without a tutorial, right? My apologies for letting you down that long…

Well, I want to share this new one that I think you'll like.

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Why continuous binding? Because I receive tons of e-mails asking if I use any special binding techniques on the quilts I send to magazines and also on my quilt patterns. Many quilters use regular binding: they cut strips selvage to selvage and piece them together to get a long piece. 

But, like Ricky Tims says, "if we don't want to get caught by the quilting police let's do the traditional way", that is continuous bias binding.

I know, I know… many of us find out to do bias binding a tedious endeavour! Let me show you an EASY, FAST and FUN method to get yards and yards of  perfect pieced bias binding.

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You can find on the right sidebar under "Tutorials" or see it right here. Don't forget to let me know what you think, I love your feedback.

Hope you enjoy and can put it to use many times. I always enjoy sharing with you…

Btw, do you like the new look of my blog?

With all my love,

Pat

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11 responses to “CONTINUOUS BIAS BINDING 101 TUTORIAL”

  1. Mary Avatar
    Mary

    I cannot wait to try this method. I have never used bias binding cause it seemed to labor intensive. I like this tutorial but don’t quite get the open the fabric bit. Maybe when I actually have the fabric in front of me it will click.
    Thanks

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  2. Jen A. Avatar
    Jen A.

    Great tutorial, it was very easy to understand too. Thanks for posting it!

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  3. Michele Avatar
    Michele

    I also don’t understand how to open the fabric with all of the edges sewn. Are we supposed to pull it through one of the clipped edges so right sides are now out?

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  4. Patricia Bravo Avatar
    Patricia Bravo

    Dear Mary,
    Try it, you will see how easy it is!! I made the instructions longer on that step, but basically when you cut the lines on the opposite sides of the fabric, you grab and open the fabric from one of the cut lines, and a tube will be revealed in fron of you! You’ll see what I mean when you do it.
    Thank you so much for writing this comment!
    Love Pat

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  5. Patricia Bravo Avatar
    Patricia Bravo

    Hi Michelle,
    I made the instructions longer on that step, but basically when you cut the lines on the opposite sides of the fabric, you grab the cut edges and open the fabric from the center, and you’ll have a tube! You’ll see what I mean when you do it.
    Thank you so much for your interest and for commenting on my blog!
    If you have any other question, please let me know…
    Love Pat

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  6. Aunt LoLo Avatar
    Aunt LoLo

    I think you just blew my mind. :-l
    I know how I’m going to make my next batch of binding!!!!

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  7. Nadia Avatar
    Nadia

    Dear Patricia,
    I tried this out with paper as a test and it does make a really long strip of bias binding, except I end up with a diagonal kink at regular intervals in the binding because the final cuts (in step 8) are slightly on the diagonal. Is there any way to avoid doing diagonal cuts so that there are no kinks in the strip?
    Also, in step 4 your drawing should show the diagonal red line pointing from bottom left corner to top right corner (as in the previous diagram) – otherwise, if you flip the fabric over and cut the line as shown, you end up with two cone-shaped separate pieces (as if you had cut through both layers instead of just one, in step 3). It would also make it easier to read that particular drawing if it showed the clipped corners from the previous step.
    Hope my suggestions sound OK – I really appreciate your tutorials and love hearing about your fabric designs.

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  8. Patricia Bravo Avatar
    Patricia Bravo

    Hi Nadia,
    Thank you for the feedback! Somehow I messed up with the drawing and should make the second line opposite. I am correcting this as we speak. For the kinks, this is unavoidable but when you try it on fabric (as I did hundred of times) is totally manageable since fabric is on bias now. The curves are extremely gentle.
    Warm regards,
    Pat

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  9. Nadia Avatar
    Nadia

    Great! I forgot the bias would make the kinks less obvious – I was practicing on paper! Glad my suggestion for the drawing helped.
    Nadia.

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  10. Lavinia Avatar
    Lavinia

    Hi Pat, I´ve just came accross your tutorial, I´m going to try it in my next quilt. Thanks a billion for sharing it! Love!!

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  11. Cristine Mincheff Avatar
    Cristine Mincheff

    I found Nadia’s trick of trying the method with a piece of paper to be extremely helpful. First of all, it proves it works and you can make mistakes without guilt! I love it. And I appreciate the approximate amounts of materials needed for various lengths. Once I made binding with such a big piece that I was able to bind two full size quilts and a small wall hanging. An embarrassing, but eventually happy mistake. The fabric I used made a beautiful binding that went with so many of the other fabrics I have. Now I just need a tip for making the final join lie flat and be virtually invisible. ;-)) Cristine

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