I will urge you not to multitask while driving, but I guess we all do it sometimes. Some more than others **cough-cough-my-husband**. Keep things handy and keep your car neat with a visor organizer. This is a quick-and-easy project that I found on Vanilla Joy. You can whip it up in no time. I have an explanation below on bias-tape mitered corners if you need some help.
Supplies
(Click fabrics for direct links for purchase at Warehouse Fabrics Inc.)
This is a view of the pocket flap. This project has square corners on the pocket flap and on the main part of the organizer. If you finish your edges with bias tape, you could actually just leave the bias tape as-is and sandwich the fabric between it and sew. But when you get to the corners, you’ll have to fold it around and it will get messy looking.To keep it neat, let’s do mitered corners. You’ll notice that your bias tape is wider (just a tiny bit) on one side than the other. You want the narrower side on the next step.
First of all, I started in the middle of one side and I left a few inches at the beginning of the bias tape free. When you open your bias tape up (this is extra-large double fold bias tape), you’ll see these creases. I have opened the narrower side and it’s to the right in this photo. Line up one raw edge with the raw edge of your fabric and sew along the crease. Whatever that crease is, that’s your seam allowance here and that’s how far you’ll want to stop from the end of the seam.
As you can see, I didn’t sew all the way to the end. Now I’ll fold my bias tape up …
… and then back down over itself, holding that diagonal crease you made in the photo above in place as you fold it downward.
Sew from the top edge of the fabric down the crease again. Repeat at each corner.
When you come back around to the beginning, fold over the edge of the bias tape from the beginning of the round, then lay the end on top …
… and continue sewing to the end.
Now let it fold back up and flip it toward the back.
Fold the bias tape around (it should now be folded up in its original manner) and start sewing. You can stitch in the ditch, but you do have to catch the back of the bias tape in this stitching. I find that stitching slightly to the right of the seam gives me a better chance of accomplishing that. No, the stitching is not hidden, but I don’t think it looks bad, so it’s just how I do it. Incidentally, if we were talking about binding a quilt, at this point I just flip it around and then hand sew it so it looks nice. A quilt requires so much time and money that I am willing to put the work in for perfection. But for a project like this, not so much.OK, so when you get close to the corner, lift it up and fold it like this.
Then fold it like this and sew to the inside corner of the bias tape. Leave your needle down, lift your presser foot and pivot. Then continue around in this manner making this fold at each corner.There are more pics below. I had a bit of trouble getting a good angle for these photos in my rather small car.
