Bunting!
Our long term readers will know that I have a penchant for making bunting…
Most often, I make it for people’s babies, but sometimes for other occasions, too.
This was really an exercise in scrap-busting. I have a box of scraps which are too small to do much with, but I keep them just in case I need a quilt square, a bit of applique or a bunting triangle!
The bunting to end all bunting…
One morning when Baba Tweedie was napping, I let Little Tweedie loose in my sewing room and asked her to choose scraps for the bunting. She chose some fabrics that I definitely wouldn’t have chosen (the plain beige cotton for one!), but I indulged her. I did, however, try to jazz the plainer triangles up with some of the Suki Iron-On Transfers Julia had given to me a few months ago.
This bunting is 8.25m long, has 52 triangles, which meant I actually cut 104 triangles and sewed them together! I also made my own bias binding – I made about 9 metres of the stuff!
And here it is, in various poses…
One of the lovely things about this bunting is its personal meaning. I remember where each triangle came from, whether it was given to me or leftover from a project. And it’s always good to use up scraps!
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That’s a great idea and lovely for little Tweedie to start getting creative with you. I recognised some of your dresses in the scraps. I might start looking to my scraps in a different way now. Thanks for the tip.
Definitely a nice way to use up scraps!
Love it 🙂 That’s an impressive amount of bunting…
Thank you! I think I’m all bunting-ed out, now!
That’s a great idea to use up scraps! It’s lovely to have every triangle a memory 🙂
It is nice. It makes the garden look prettier too!
I keep keeping bits that “will be useful for… Something” and this may be it!
Do it! 🙂