Making corners with bias tape
I've been teaching overall 4 friends last 2 weeks how to make nice corners bias tape so I made a small tutorial for everyone interested! I see way too often cringe-worthy corners on sailor uniforms and such while there is a easy and more cleaner way of making them than just sewing one tape on the other.
The fabric where the bias tape goes.
If you're making your own bias tape, having a bias tape helper (the metal blue thingy I have in that picture) will help you make the tape faster. You can buy them cheap from ebay or more expensive ones from fabric stores. Mine are from ebay and even if the set cost me 7 euros they're good enough.
First of all make the tape if you haven't bought some. You can find my tutorial for it HERE. Since I didn't have the helpers then you can see here how it works:
See from your fabric just from where to where you want your bias tape go from. Those will be your corners!
Let's start from the side tapes. Let's say you're making 18x18 work.
Mark where the tape starts to bias tape and then take your set square.
It's important that your corner will be even because otherwise the corner won't be straight and whole bias tape starts going wonky! If you don't have money to buy a set square, take somecardboard, cut it into the width of your bias tape and cut the corner by tracing from a corner of paper.
Now, you measure the 18cm (that's tots 18cm :D) and have your first corner halfway done!
Now take the other head of the bias tape and put the right sides against each other and sew on the chalk.
And this is what you get.
Now cut the corners. The smaller the seam margin the better as otherwise your corner will bulk and won't look as sharp as it should.
Remember to shape the head as well as you can to make it look sharp little bitch.
Now, if you have to make another corner like in the picture do the same again. Measure 18cm's from the seam you just sew so that you will have this kind of shape in your tape:
(Sorry for another picture. I hadn't taken a picture of this so had to show another one I took for a friend)
After that's done if you didn't already turn the tape around do it now when you have both done.
Before sewing the tape to the fabric you might want to iron the tape so that it won't go out of the folding and move a lot during sewing. I didn't do that with this tape and you can see how shitty it looks without ironing since the folds won't stay where they should.Also it might be good to pin the tape down so that it won't go wonky, especially if you have slippery fabric(s). Otherwise you're ready to rock!
Wait, what is that neat corner thingy next to it!?
You can use this tutorial also to make just normal corners. It's as easy as just doing the same you did with the other one:
Measure the highest points:
and repeat the whole thing!. To make inside corner you'll have to turn the triangle around so when making that my seams looked like this:
So this is pretty good mnemonic:
When making outside corners
When making inside corners
Remember, when sewing inside corners your seam margin has to be almost non existing or it will come out.
This is how the corners look close by. I'm sorry I kind of half-assed them so they're not as pretty as they could be.
I hope I'm clear enough with this tutorial. In case you want more information, just message and I'll clear things up. It's a bit hard for me to explain something that's so clear to myself.
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