I'm taking part in bimble and pimple's Sewvember instagram challenge, and on day two our mission, should we choose to accept it, *Dun Dun dundundun Dun*... was "technique". I happened to be doing a couple of oblique mitred corners that morning so that's what got insta-ed.A right-angled mitred corner is an easy and straightforward thing, simply folding the raw edges evenly together and sewing an easily gauged perpendicular line out to the edge from the corner. But I find an oblique mitred corner to be not at all intuitive... so anyway, I thought I would take a few more pictures and share my way of doing it here. This is not necessarily the one and only way, of course. Just mine :)This pattern has been cut with a 4cm hem allowance and a 1cm seam allowance.Turn up the 4cm hem allowances on both edges and press the layers in place. Use a long pin to mark the underneath layer, exactly where the fold of the upper layer sits. It's also helpful to mark that outer corner fold point with a pin.Unfold the hem allowances and turn them out right sides together, exactly aligning the upper layer fold at left to the line marked with the long pin. The corner point pin is a helpful guide to alignment. Pin.the point of that corner fold pin can be seen peeping out at the bottom there
Stitch along the pressed fold; starting from 1cm in from the raw edge and ending at the corner point pin. Trim the corner excess.Turn out and press. If all has gone to plan, it should be sitting all nice, smooth and flat!Aaaand, hem :)
