How to Sew Neat Corners When Binding with Bias Tape

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If you do patchwork, you know how important the final stage of sewing a project is—specifically, binding the edges. On items like potholders, chair pads, quilts, and bedspreads, you need to make neat corners. Doing this is very simple, even if you are binding the project with strips cut from fabric rather than store-bought bias tape.

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Step 3

Step-by-step instructions will help you achieve a great result.

Directions

Cut a strip of fabric 5–6 cm wide. Trim the corner strictly at a 45-degree angle. For this, it is convenient to use a special template or a hand-marked piece of cardboard.

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Step 5

Pin it to the project, not right from the corner, but starting about 10 cm in; you also need to leave a little space from the end of the binding strip.

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Step 7

Stitch a presser-foot width from the edge. When the seam approaches the corner, mark it on the fabric with a pencil. Stitch at an angle and cut the thread.

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Step 9

How to form an even corner on the binding

Fold the strip of trim fabric right side up, maintaining a 45-degree angle. The edge line of the project and the binding run in a single line.

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Step 11

Fold the binding down "toward you," forming an even fold, and continue working.

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Step 13

Once the entire project is bound, join the ends of the binding. To do this, fold in the corner that was cut at an angle, align it with the loose end, stitch them together, and turn the trim right side out.

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Step 15

Press the fabric, avoiding the corners.

The rest of the work is done by hand. Fold the trim strip of fabric, folding it in half, and baste it by hand with a blind stitch. Finish the corners as follows, folding the binding in opposite directions on the front and back.

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Step 17

Do not forget to neatly stitch the fold itself at each corner with tiny stitches. The edge binding is complete.