How to sew your Bias cut strips together

In my last post I covered how to cut bias strips which can be used for bias binding or bias tape. Here's how I joined those strips together.

Each end of my bias strips is at a 45° angle if you refer back to my previous post (below) you can see the second strip from the left does not have a 45° angle. This was only with the fat quarter, when I cut my 44 x 44" fabric square into strips all my ends were 45°. This is were I would recommend always working with a square.

Matching right sides together I join my strips with ¼" seams at the valleys.

If you check with a ruler your stitching should be on the ¼" mark.

Now when you open your strip it should look like this.

I ended up with a pile like this

Then it's off to the ironing board were you can either iron it in half for quilt binding

 or you can make bias tape.

My 44" square of fabric made 22½ yards of bias binding.

The fat quarter made just a little shy 4½ yards. 

Which if you do the math is nearly the same per ¼ yard of fabric

Thanks for reading♥