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Scandinavian Fabric Stars
Following along with our posts, you will have noticed that we love taking existing tools and finding unique ways to use them. Most everyone reading this will have heard of bias tape, having purchased it or made it themselves for garment trims and quilt binding.
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Tool School: Bias Tape Makers
Photo courtesy of Sewing Fun with Bias by Dori Troutman Learn how you can create your own bias tape in minutes. You can also make bias tape that can be temporarily bonded using an iron from any fabric you like.
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Bias Tape Woven Mini Quilt
Not all fabric tapes made with a bias tape maker have to be or should be made from bias cut fabric.
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Sewing Fun With Bias Tape Binding by Dori Troutman
I can’t tell you how excited I was to use the Clover Bias Tape Makers. A few years ago I purchased an off brand Bias Tape Maker and it was such a disappointment that I’ve been hesitant to try them again. This experience was so different! This is a game changer for me where making Bias Tape is concerned and I’m so excited.
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Tool School: Bias Tape Makers
By Steve Butler What is it? Bias binding tape has been called “the duct tape of sewing.” Why? Because, like the actual duct tape, it’s just so handy. We can use it to join raw edges of fabric in any fashion that suits our creative vision.
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Bias Tape
What is it? – Let’s face it, a lot of sewing is just basic construction. You start out with a set of tools, some fabric and an intended pattern. Then you add your own creative expression and that’s what makes it yours. One of the materials used by sewers in virtually every genre is bias binding tape. Bias binding tape is simply fabric cut on the bias, or cross grain, and folded to a specific lengthwise dimensional width. By cutting and folding the fabric on a 45 degree angle from…