My 2020 Bunting

 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.

Holiday Bunting

Bunting is definitely for holidays, but can be for anytime you need a little spruce-up of your surroundings.  That one bunting that is on my blog header, you know the one; look at the top of the page.  Anyway, I used it last year to decorate a booth at the quilt show and to decorate Mr. R's old pickup truck for the Kuna Days Parade.  I used it on the patio for when the CLS came over to visit and do some fabric painting.  I washed it, pressed it, folded it up and put it away for the winter.  It is already for fair weather spruce-ups in 2020.

However, I think I want to make another one that is longer in length, so the sprucing goes farther.  The one below, I made for the quilt show a few years back.  It was awesome!  I have it all wadded up in a bag of scraps in my cabinet.  If you have a bunch of scraps, you don't wish to throw out, you could do something along these lines, but perhaps a little tidier.  You could pink the edges of the scraps and make a tidy binding for them to be hanging from.  That would be nicer looking, yet easy.

This was announcing the theme of the next show, which was "Scrap Happy"

Below is the bunting I hang in my dining room at Christmas time. I did not make this bunting.  I bought it at the Craft Warehouse.  I connected both ends to some loops of scrap fabric then hung the loop ends around the knobs at each end of my curtain rod.  Rods with knobs rock!