Bunting in the Kuna Days Parade!

The Piecemakers of Idaho, quilt group, were once again, in the Kuna Days Parade.  What a sweet pick-up we had to tow our trailer (float).  We tied that soft cotton bunting on the hood and wow did it look great!

Bunting at Good Friends "Doll" Quilt Show

Those doll quilters sure had a good show.  The bunting, to keep the public from touching, was wonderful.  The stanchions were amazingly painted traffic cones. 

You can see this doll quilt show at the Boise Basin Quilt Show on September 26-27, 2025, at Expo Idaho, in Garden City, Idaho.  The quilts displayed this year, will be completely different from last year's show.  To see the doll quilt blog, and all their amazing work:  https://czdollquilts.blogspot.com/   The premise, is that the dolls made the quilts.

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.

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.

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.

Bunting in McCall, Idaho

I took my friend, T, and my Aunt Daisy with me on a little road trip on Saturday.  We delivered a quilt to the Council Quilt Show in Council, Id.  Then we had a picnic and drove up to New Meadows and then down to McCall.  We sat on the shore of Payette Lake and watched the waves come in and a storm pass by, before going to the Huckleberry Quilt Shop.  This is the bunting I found there.  So, original!  I think I may become approving of those little yo-yo's yet!

flowers bunting -how charming, indeed

Bunting at Luxembourg Fabric Festival 2018

My daughter is living in Germany, and Luxembourg the country and city is located just a few miles across the western border of Germany.  She went to the Fabric Festival there, about three weeks ago.  Maybe it was in February?
She posted gobs of photos on her Facebook page.  She has tolerated me needing to stop at quilt shops across this country when we have traveled, and in S Korea and Japan last year.  She has a really good grasp of what appeals to me, when it comes to fabrics and stuff.  Here is a photo she took at the Luxembourg Fabric Festival a few weeks ago. 

This is the bunting photo.  A little peek into fabric show in another country.
I sure wish I could have been there myself!

I made the bunting with the fusable fleece.  I viewed the video produced by the Missouri Star Quilt Company. The link to the video is below in the instructions called "Easier".  It really is is easier!    To make it even easier, here is that link again.  Missouri Star Bunting Tutorial   [they call it a garland and used a charm pack]

I picked up three halloween fabrics, 5 yards pom-pom trim, and 1/2 yard fusible fleece at Hancock Fabrics. I already had a wedge shaped ruler. I cut a 5" strip of each fabric, then adhered it to the fusable fleece, as instructed in the video. Then I cut the three strips apart and used my wedge to cut all the triangles.  Using my triangle wedge kept me from wasting any of my fabric.  I made my triangles bigger than those on the tutorial and sewed seven of the triangles to the pom-pom trim. The one below looks a bit brighter on my green cutting mat.


place decorative trim in place, then sew it down

 I made one to decorate my cubicle at work and the other for a friend. I used a contrasting color of thread on one, with one of my fancy stitches on my new machine. It is 54 inches in length, so is just right for a window or a cubicle wall.  The best thing about making this festive bunting is it took so little time. Instant gratification is a good thing!

Easy:

I found this sweet fabric bunting in a book, Sew Charming, by Cath Derksema and Kirsten Junor.  I bought some fab summer fabrics and discovered I could get three flags out of a fat quarter. Then there is a little strip of fabric left, that can be used in the binding strip that holds them all together.  You connect all the strips, just like you would to make binding for a quilt.  So, my bunting has a colorful strip holding all the flag parts.   I made my own pattern using a scrap of peltex, but card stock, or cardboard will work fine. I just traced it onto the fabric with a sharpie marker. Once you cut out the shapes and sew them right sides together, you don’t see the sharpie marker.  Then you turn them right side out and press them.  The raw (open) edge just gets tucked into your binding strip, pin it in place, then sew along the binding strip until you have them all on there.  After I sewed mine up, I added a button and two button holes on each end, of the binding strip, so I have an adjustable way of fastening it to whatever hook or nail I decide to.

I hang mine on my patio, but Cath and Kirsten of Sew Charming, made theirs for a big beach umbrella, which looks so totally festive and breezy you want to make one!