bjp22tango
Active Member
I used this method when I was decorating a wedding dress with rows of bias
http://www.sewnews.com/resources/qa/qa0306c/index.html
Its time consuming and you feel like you are constructing a mobius strip when sewing it together, but it does give you a continuous strip of many yards of bias tape. As long as you keep your selveges (the on grain straight edges) even and mark your lines even with the bias ends, you will mark correctly. I used a ****l yardstick that has a thin cork strip bonded to the back to align my marking lines. The cork holds the fabric steady and doesn't allow it to pull off grain as I marked. I also used a felt tip pen so I wouldn't have to put much pressure on the fabric as I was marking. You can get marking pens with disappearing ink from the fabric store.
http://www.sewnews.com/resources/qa/qa0306c/index.html
Its time consuming and you feel like you are constructing a mobius strip when sewing it together, but it does give you a continuous strip of many yards of bias tape. As long as you keep your selveges (the on grain straight edges) even and mark your lines even with the bias ends, you will mark correctly. I used a ****l yardstick that has a thin cork strip bonded to the back to align my marking lines. The cork holds the fabric steady and doesn't allow it to pull off grain as I marked. I also used a felt tip pen so I wouldn't have to put much pressure on the fabric as I was marking. You can get marking pens with disappearing ink from the fabric store.
