Sunday, October 14, 2007

Christmas bunting

Very warm Sunday greetings to you all from Caz and Angela!!
Today we are bring you a little more Christmas inspiration to get those creative juices flowing :)
Buntings have been around for years, but i've noticed this year that they seem to have been a very popular decoration!
So we are bringing buntings indoors and using up those bits of Christmas fabric to make great decorations for the home :)
Caz
For my bunting I have cut triangle shapes from fat quarters using pinking shears, this meant I didn't have to stitch around each one {lol}.
I folded the tops of each triangle over a length of twine and hand stitched using thick green thread. I didn't want my triangles moving around on the twine so I popped a couple of stitches through the top to hold them in place.
I cut green felt in the shape of holly and stiched it to a couple of the triangles using red buttons and ribbons for the berries.
And on a couple more I again cut green felt into strips {3 different lengths} and attached in the shape of a Christmas tree. Brown velvet ribbon did the trick for the trunk and these gorgeous little yellow star buttons were perfect for the tree tops!
Angela
I have made some Christmas bunting that I would like to share with you.
I made it from 3 different fabrics, 2 Christmas decorative fabrics and gold satin to finish off the back. I cut the fabrics into triangles, using a template I had cut out of paper. I also cut out some Pelmet Vilene triangles to use as a support for the bunting. I sewed 14 triangles, 7 in white and 7 in green to the Pelmet Vilene and then I covered a large piece of cream felt with Versamark ink, and sprinkled gold embossing powder on it. I then heated this with a heat gun and let the embossing powder melt. I repeated this process twice. This left a beautiful gold felt :)
I then drew around some Heidi Swapp Ghost Letters onto the embossed felt to read "Merry Christmas" and cut these out. I then cut some gold fibre paper out in squares the same size as the letters and sewed the letters to the bunting.
I used gold cord to join the flags together and sewed these in place, attaching gold satin fabric to the back of the flags. Finally, I embossed some cream buttons with matching embossing powder and attached these to the cord using ribbon.
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haPPy creATing
Caz and Angela
xx

7 comments:

Diana said...

Great bunting girls. I am INSPIRED to make som too

Trish said...

wow girls, these are fab, I think I may be off to the shop for more fabric tomorrow xxx

Craftybanshee said...

Lovely bunting!

Anonymous said...

WOW!!!!!!!!!!! These are just gorgeous!!! I really would love to be able to do this. I saw a baby bunting recently that reminded me of you girls working on this.

Amazing work!

love,
j

Anonymous said...

Fabulous bunting ladies... I have placed a mini contest on my blog now... hopefully we will get lots of entries :D
Congratulations for all you are doing to raise awareness of Breast Cancer and on your just giving page :D
((hugs))
Chris

Ruth said...

wow that's great bunting--thanks for the inspiration

Ruth said...

wow that's brill bunting--thanks for the inspiration