How to cut bias binding or bias tape

I've always bound my quilts with regular strips of fabric which honestly has worked great but with seeing rounded corners and curves on quilt edges I knew I'd would have to change my methods. Here's how to fold your fabric to cut bias strips with your rotary cutter.
I'm going to demonstrate the following with a fat quarter which is 18 x 22 working with a square would be best but to satisfy even my own curiosity I'm going to use the whole fat quarter to see how much it makes.

First I like to lay my fabric face down.

Then fold the top left corner down to the bottom. with a square you would just match corner to corner.

Next take the upper right and bring it down to the lower left.

 Make sure to match up the bottom edges as shown below. 

when folded it will look like this. If you were working with a square you would now have a triangle shape.

Now we are going to take the bottom left and fold it up to the upper right. This makes more sense when your working with a larger piece of fabric because you need to fold it up to a manageable piece to cut.

And finally turn to face you. 

Onto the cutting. The small triangles on the right are all that's left for waste.

The next photos are of the large 44 x 44" piece of fabric I cut. I wanted to work with a square this time.

I folded my fabric exactly the same as above for the fat quarter.

Then I marked my ruler with glow line tape.

First I cut off the folded edge to my left.

and then proceeded to cut strips all the way to the end, the last little triangle cut at the end was my waste.

That was a lot to cover in one post. Lots of pictures. I hope all the instructions are clear, please let me know if anything doesn't make sense. In my next post I'll cover how I sew these strips together.

Thanks for reading♥