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.