Next, fabric. Obviously, your choice will affect the end result. I liked using fabrics that had large patterns to them because the color change then becomes very obvious in your bowl. Fabric with a tiny print won't look as variegated. The strips are cut on a bias and are 3/4 inch wide. You want the ends to all have the chisel end facing the same direction. So what I did was took my fabric and laid it out just as it was cut from the bolt and cut both the selvage edge and the folded edge off so that I now had two piece of fabric. I think turned that bottom layer over so that both pieces were facing right side up and layered together. I then cut my bias strips so that the chisel ends were all facing the same direction as shown below.