As an apology that I haven’t been up to any new DIY projects to share with you, I’ve dug this post out of the archives.  This was useful for me when I made a simple curtain for my bathroom window, but I’m sure there are endless uses for this technique.  Enjoy!

Here is how to make nice & neat mitered corners:

2. Iron your hemlines to create a corner, using your manilla folder as a guide. Fold one hem, iron, fold the opposing hem, iron. Now you have a point but with overlapping fabric. How can we make this neater? Note: If you want to double fold your hem you would do that here. The rest of the tutorial would work the same. I just did a single fold for simplicity.

3. Mark your corner with your pins as shown – they go through only the top part of the fold so you can open them up in the next step. You want them to cross & to mark the edges of you hemlines.
4. Open your fold and then turn it inside out so that the pins line up. Your landmarks for sewing are where your pins line up & the corner mark that shows on the fabric from your pressing.

5. Position the corner on your machine. I usually start at the corner since it’s a little harder to see than the pins. Line it up & sew a straight line from corner to where the pins line up.

6. Turn it inside right now & check to be sure it looks great! Then, if it looks good, turn it inside out again, snip off the extra fabric & turn it inside right again for the last time. Note: I will make an excuse at this time that I was working with a looser woven fabric grabbed from the scrap bin. If you’re working with a tighter cotton, you shouldn’t get the waves that are showing on mine LOL. It should be nice & flat & straight. Good luck!