A friend and I took a trip down to Twin Falls today. We spied some bunting!
I love taking photos of old buildings, even if they don't have bunting. The photo below is of the old Ustick Merc. My best friend and I used to ride our bikes out here from Ash Park Lane to post letters to our pen pals, when we were in Junior High. It had worn wooden floors and lots of sweet goodies for the random bicycle rider to enjoy. My favorite thing, at that time, was Shasta Apple Soda.
I am glad this building is still here. Boise has grown so much, torn down so much, built so much, and disappeared too many acres of farmland. The area around the Ustick Merc used to be farmland, even in the 1970s, when I rode my bicycle out here.
It has been about two years since I last posted about bunting. Life is busy. Last month, as described on my quilt blog, I went on a day trip, with my daughter, to Twin Falls. We saw a lot of bunting that day. I have three or more photographs of bunting. The best bunting was hanging over the door at Altered Purposes on Main Avenue.
But there is more. There was bunting behind the bunting. More bunting! It is secret Halloween bunting.
I had a wonderful time at a quilting retreat in Cascade, from Oct 27 -Oct 31. I got back just in time to hang out my freshly finished Halloween bunting, so all the ghouls and monsters (and Spiderman) could get that festive feeling during their Trick or Treat endeavors.
I left it up overnight and when it started to rain later in the afternoon, my wonderful husband went out and took it down and folded it up neatly for me. When I got home from work, it was a pleasant surprise.
I worked on more bunting on our recent camping trip up at Brownlee Reservoir. Recent was last week. Got it done in no time. Here it is just hung in our little entry hallway. I will hang it outside, next week, for Halloween. I will be watching the forecast closely, as I think I would rather it not get rained on, it's very first time outside.
Of course, it is washable, but it looks so crisp and colorful right now. It is a few feet longer than you can see in this photo. Happy Haunting!
The bunting I made last year, to go on the awning of our RV, actually fits perfectly around my blue and white pop-up. We had a patio extension made from pavers installed in our back yard. Then I put up my pop-up for shade. My ladies club came over and it was quite festive with the bunting on our shade producing pop-up.
We had to cancel our scheduled vacation plans for 2020. I think everyone knows why that is. So, we have been taking time to go camping in our RV. The week before Memorial Day, there were so many people up at our favorite 'hooked-up' camping place and hot springs, we decided to go off the grid! We have been camping on the Boise National Forest (Cottonwood District as it used to be called). We camped at Long Gulch, where the Guard Station used to actually be located, Rattlesnake Creek, and Smith Creek.
When we were at Long Gulch, my husband said I should sew some bunting just for our RV. So, we measured our awning and I got to work on some obnoxious bunting. Obnoxious is what several of my quilts, this summer, have been named, due to their very bright qualities. You can see my posts about those on my main blog: http://glutenfreequilter.blogspot.com I used many of the left over fabrics from Obnoxious I, II, III, and IV for the bunting, and I pieced a couple wonky house bunts, and a skull bunt, and used some Pete the Cat fabric. It turned out marvelous and not obnoxious at all!
The photo, above, is showing the back side of the bunting. This was at Rattlesnake Creek, the week of August 10. Where I actually go to sew, with my Necchi sewing machine, being powered by six solar panels and one battery. I sewed for over an hour, with my bunting gently waving in the breeze.
I used some of those little clips all the quilters like to clip their binding on with, to clip the bunting to the awning. I made the bunting binding with approximately 36 inches of leader on each end with button holes and buttons for securing the ends. I have taken photos of my construction process, so I will be adding a tutorial on how to make this, in September. It was easy and 'sew' much fun to get crazy and make fun bunting to help cheer up our 2020 time off from work experiences.
