making bias tape

I'm sure I am WAY late to this party... I've been making sleep masks, which I like to edge with bias tape. I've been using store bought, but I made a mask with a scrap of beautiful brocade and the store-bought just looked too plain. To the internet!

I found this tutorial. I wish I had one of these neat little doohickeys that helps you fold the tape itself (or even better, this awesome simplicity one that does almost all of it for you), but I am both poor and impatient, so it's just me, the sewing machine, and iron meeting this challenge!

I'm sure this would have been easier using a lightweight fabric. I was using brocade to match my pretty sleep mask, and I wanted to try it out with a relatively small piece to be sure it would work, which meant my seams were awfully close together and probably made it harder to fold and press. Ah well. Who wants to do things the easy way??

FOllowing the tut, I made my little parallelogram,

Marked my cutting lines:

Cut my strips and sewed them together:

And then ironed away!

Here is the finished product, going onto the mask... it is a little uneven, but I am totally addicted and think I'll do better once I use a larger piece of fabric (which I think I"ll try pretty much now).

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All Done!!

See it on Whipperberry!