Bunting

Bunting makes me smile.

My first attempt was really cheating as I used Synthetic cord and glued the pinked/sheared pieces of cloth over it.  But as you can see below it looked OK.

Christmas Bunting 2013

I tried hard with this and precisely cut out symmetrical triangles.  I sewed the fabric right sides together and then turned them inside out and steamed my fingers whilst ironing them the right side out.  I used Bondaweb to make the letters and ironed them on.  I intended to sew around the letters but they looked fine so I saved myself a job. Then I halved a length of ribbon lengthways and inserted the triangles along the groove.

The wreath in the centre was a polystyrene ring which I tied lengths of material to. 

Note to self.  Cover the white ring first so that the gaps do not show.  It took a lot of material, tied on, to fully cover the ring.  I found some lovely small baubles to add and a length of Maribou.

Christmas Bunting 2014

Making bunting for Katie and Ella’s cafe (Eastgate Cafe, Manchester) from fabric which had Merry Christmas written on it and a one way pattern, meant that I was left with many upside down triangles which could not be used in the normal way.  So I zigzag stitched two pieces together with a small ‘pot shaped’ piece of green felt in the sandwich.  Then folding and ironing red ribbon lengthways gave a good string to attach the trees to.  A little star glued on the top of each tree and on each pot (on both sides) gave them a little extra sparkle.

The ‘Scandi’ fabric I found in ‘Greens Fabrics’ in Blackburn for just £2.50 per metre gave me the idea for the dual purpose ‘Scandi’ bunting.  The backs are made from Red Polka Dot material, so that by using it against a wall you can use it all year round.

I made a cardboard template for cutting out the triangles this time and then used it to iron each piece of fabric edging around the template.  This gave a triangle with the edges folded in.  Two pieces were sewn together and then added to a string of ribbon as above.

This is going to make nice Christmas presents, for its equally bunting mad recipients.