Mount Bunting!

A few friends have had babies lately and another baby turned 1 recently.  I decided to sew some personalised bunting flags to celebrate.  It became a mountain of bunting flags!

I started about a month ago and have been chipping away at it slowly.  The applique was the most time-consuming - tracing all the letters, attaching them letters on to the flags and edge-stitching each letter.  The easiest letters have straight lines, the letters that were fiddly had lots of curves.  :)

So, I ended up doing bunting flags for five children - Polly, Jacob, Grace, Brennan and Spencer.  Fabric for the boys' flags was bought from Spotlight, fabric for the girls' flags was bought from my local quilt shop.

Here's some of them on display ....

Jacob

Polly

Spencer

And all of them (close-up shots)

Jacob

Grace

Brennan

Polly

Spencer

All of these flags will be sent to families this week - I hope they like them!

As an aside, take a look at my home-made "lightbox" that I used to trace out the letters.  It worked a treat!

A-bunting we will go ...

I have been meaning to make this for a while, but finally got around to doing it yesterday.  A friend had a little baby girl a couple of months ago and I thought I would make some personalised bunting flags to decorate the room.  Making the bunting flags was super easy but everything associated with appliquing the letters was time-consuming.  Not particularly difficult, but just took a bit of time.

I practised on the letters with the straight edges first before tacking the 'e' and the 's'.  Those two letters took a bit more concentration.

In total, eight flags (six with letters, two that were blank)

The technical stuff  - for the lettering, I used Cooper Black font 350pt in Word.  The flags themselves were cut with a 9.5" base edge and 10.5" length from the base edge.  I used 1/4" seams and the binding was simply some ready made binding I picked up at Spotlight ages ago.

I hope the little girl likes it (or at least her Mum and Dad do!)  :)  I now have 2 orders for similar bunting flags from my own little girls ...