I have made a couple of quilts using this technique. On both of them I made my own bias strips I made the strips out the same fabric that was the border. I didn't use a bias maker because half of them were 1/4 inch finished and the others were 1/8 inch finished. I folded the fabric strips in thirds and basted them before basting them to the background. I didn't use the premade bias strips because I wanted to chose the colors I wanted. In the past I have used fabric glue to baste the strips but found that the glue made it hard to hand applique the strips. The glue made the fabric stiff. I guess that if you are machine appliquing this probably wouldn't be a problem.