Bunting For A Big Event!

"The Girls" are getting ready to put on a quilt show.  They are making bunting for decorative crowd control.  I am helping them out.  I have learned a new quick way to make bunting!  What? Yet another quick way?  Absolutely!

You just find a strip of fabric, possibly in your fabric stash or your neighbors' fabric stash, and press one, long edge, over to the back.  Use the zig-zag stitch on your sewing machine (or your neighbors').  Then you cut the shape into the long side opposite the side you zig-zagged.

The girls and I are doing a bit of a mash-up style, so I used a wider strip of the dark and cut scallops, and it is sewed to the narrower orange.  I am just going to cut out triangles on the orange-pink-fruit punch colored fabric.

That is all there is to it.  You can add more sections, or just make one really long section.  Then sew a little more fabric on each end, or a ribbon, or shoestring, so you have something to tie up both ends of your bunting.

This was just a test-hang, so you can get the idea.  It is really going to be incorporated with many more sections, so it goes around a display to keep people back a couple feet.  My good friends are, also, making sections and they will all be sewed to one another to make a really long bunting.  

Another great way to make bunting, is to cut different fabric prints to make a random splash of color, and just sew them to long strips of selvage edge.  Fabric comes on bolts and the two long edges are the selvedge edges.  It is what keeps the fabric from unraveling.  It is a tighter weave than the rest of the fabric and usually people trim it off and throw it out, but it is great to sew triangles or squares onto it to make bunting.  These buntings are raw edge, so they are quick and easy to make!

In June 2012, I posted instructions for making three different easy buntings.  Click HERE to visit those instructions.

A Sunny Day in Twin Falls!

A friend and I took a trip down to Twin Falls today.  We spied some bunting!

This was inside the shop called "Altered Purposes."  We took a little watercolor class there.  Lisa showed us how to use the woodless watercolor pencils and the watercolor crayons.  I think I like the watercolor crayons the best.  

She made some tags, for us, to paint on.  These are the ones I painted.  I really like the smear technique, I used on the upper right one, but I love them all.  Ewww . . . I could make some bunting with them!

Old Buildings and 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.

Happy New Year!

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.

And . . . there was amazing scrappy bunting decorating the inside back wall of the store.

I know it is difficult to look past all the amazing stuff in this photo to see the bunting going across the top, but it is worth it.

Trick or Treat!

 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.

Halloween Bunting

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! 

Add Bunting to Your Pop-up!

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.