Doncha just love bunting? I have it up whenever I can, birthdays, obviously, royal events (see previous posts) celebratory BBQ when the animals arrived and now summer high teas. I saw some lovely shabby-chic flags somewhere or other and admired them but they came with a hefty pricce tag.So I decided to rustle some up myself. Also this week my daughter has been asking me if we could do some sewing together - last year we made lavendar bags - sooo... my scrappy bunting became a joint sewing projet . Uber easy to do, I rummaged round my scrap stash and found some colours and patterns that I liked together (I keep even the littlest of scraps so I had quite a choice). Next I drew a paper triangle pattern the size I liked - the best proportions I found was baically an isosoles triangle where the length was the same as the width (mine were 14cm along the top and then I measured 14cm down from the mid-point along the top) and added an extra 1.5cm x 14cm rectangle on top of the triangle which
made attaching the trangles together much easier. (I would have had my daughter draw up the pattern but her Dad had got robots out so I ended up doing the preparation bits by myself....)Then we cut out zillions of triangles and sewed them right sizes together leaving the top open, this turned into great practise for leaving the needle in the fabric to turn a point! Also she learnt pinning and the great importance of RIGHT SIDES TOGETHER, only one wrongly pinned triangle ;-) We turned them out the right way and sewed them into a length of ribbon folded in half - bias tape would have worked well but I didn't have any in the house!
