Hera Marker Bias Stems!

The party is over and thanks you so much for all the Birthday Wishes for Ed! There's a pic to the side top of Ed and I - what a wonderful day - he's heading for 80 now - Old Man!

Look what arrived in the mail this morning - BOM Green Tea & Sugar Beans August! I so love the newspaper print fabric and applique will be a lovely change! So of course I started to have a little play and then I was wondering - do you know the easy way to make bias stems?

Fabric wrong side up, line up your ruler at a 45 degree angle and make your first cut to give you a true bias!

Using the wonderful Hera Marker, rule your first line (press firmly!) just under 1/4".

Mark a second line 1/4" away!

Line your ruler up slightly under a 1/4" away from second marked line and cut fabric!

Oopsy - skip to the pic below and I will tell you about it! Fold both sides inwards and press with a nice hot iron - you will notice the fabric really wants to curl in and help you, so it is easy!

Now, I've shown you the prepared three stems above - iron as shown below, sprayed with a little spray starch! Pop pins each end before you start!

Below we have out beautiful 1/4" stems ready to applique!

A quick little tute - the best way I have found to make bias stem of any width! I am led to believe this method is taught (or was?) at Elly Sienkiewicz's Academy - I was also informed the pronunciation of her name is 'senkevitch' - oh, all that trivia filling up my pea brain!

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Oh, I have made my 'Origami Bag' and will show you next Post - off to do a bit more applique preparation so I can stitch my block at a GTG with Girlfiends! tomorrow!

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Happy Day!