In quilting do any of you like hand applique?
When using the bias bars purchase the metal ones the plastic ones do not get hot enough to heat the fabric., after you cut your bias strip and fold it in half as you start to sew if you try to sew along the right edge of the fabric if often will slip out from under the presser foot, so I turn this over and sew with the fabric edge facing to the left, backwards to the way most fabric is placed under the machine. I hope this tip will help someone.
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109780Totally agree...do not waste your money on the plastic bias bars...ask me how I know...they were less expensive than the metal ones...well not so much when you then have to go buy the metal ones!!!!
318449I Here are my bias bars and a applique block I am working on.
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27358These bias bars are for making stems or the stained glass look for example. You stitch the bias strip wrong sides together then slide the seam to the flat side of the bar where you then iron it. Slide out the bar and you didn't have to turn the tiny tube. You can buy them as small as 1/4 inch (60cm)
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by PatriciaVosloo
13 Feb 2014
Thank you - never too old to learn! I have never seen these in South Africa and will be looking out to hear from the other SA Cuties as to whether they know of them. Sounds like a useful commodity.
by carolpountney
13 Feb 2014
Thank you have not seen them in South African either, will ask local quilt shop
158716I have not heard of the bias bars is there a picture of it? thanks in advance.
21044Hi Jenne, I'm the first to read your thread and am intrigued. I often make my own bias binding, though not necessarily for quilting, but do not have any knowledge of 'bias bars'. Are they something different to the gadget also used in making biasbinding but where one inserts a slanted end of the material and then systimstically pulls it through?
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