While the weather has been so hot and all I've wanted to do is stay in the shade I've completed my first lot of bunting, which seems to be as fashionable as cup-cakes at the moment!
I wasn't very organised, am I ever, as I made a lot of triangles in my favourite fabrics and pinnned them on to tape to view the effect. All my lovely florals looked quite indistinct when seen from the other end of the garden, so these fabrics are a bit more 'in your face'.
I made myself a sturdy cardboard template 17cms wide and 23cms from the centre of the top of the triangle to the point at the bottom. I used two triangles for each 'flag', stitched face to face and turned the right way round and pressed flat. I found some stuff called seam binding in our local haberdashers, all sorts of colours and 2cm wide. Using 4 metres of tape I needed 15 'flags', any closer and they hang oddly when looped, a bigger gap between them wouldn't come amiss, but then I personally don't like them so much when they are in a straight line!
Using pinking shears, bunting can be made from just single fabric, or two-sided stitched with the wrong sides together. I haven't tried this, but if it's festooned around gardens or marquees I wonder if you would really notice the difference.
A red string is next off the production line, and during the snow at the beginning of the year I made a lot of 'flags' in Christmas fabrics, so if the very hot summer continues I hope to finish that one before Christmas this year.
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