do you have one of the strip cutters? the ones with cutting slots every 1/2 inch? they have a nice simple way, complete with marks on the ruler to cut the bias....you start with a square, fold and then line up on the printed lines and cut in the slots...are there seams to make? yes....but the bias is perfect. I have used the 'spiral' method, works great; the two triangles method, works fine; two triangles with slits cut all but the last 2 inches while flat, BEFORE sewing?...works fine; and the old fashioned, fold a perfectly square piece corner-to-corner and slit the fold and then start cutting strips off in the width you like....they all work well, it's just a matter of what mood i'm in or what shape my scraps are that i'm making it from....you just have to try all the available techniques out there and then choose one for yourself.... for me? I simply don't like using anything but bias on my bindings so i am willing to go to the bother just because i like the way it looks so much.....and BTW.....did you know there is a good reason to use bias? when you receive an old quilt that the binding looks as tho it has been slit...allowing you to see the layers inside all the way down....check carefully....it has been bound on the straight of grain..... by using bias, when the fold goes over the edge MANY threads are folded over, giving you a much better chance of having your bias survive. Even if some wear occurs, the slit will not follow the thread all the way down the length of the quilt for the very good reason that the thread is only the length of the binding times 3 and goes over and around the edge, not along it.... and many times you will read that bias binding takes more....not so....more seams? yes....but the square inches taken to bind any specific quilt length + width times the width of the binding is exactly the same whether straight or bias... it's just faster to make if you don't have to piece the shorter bias pieces.... (i also don't want my seams in the binding to end up at the same place, front and back...bias seams not only wind around but move down so there is a flatter, neater appearance to each seam) THERE IS NO WRONG WAY TO QUILT....my mantra....but I vote for bias when I'm making it....