Scrappy Fabric Bunting

My fabric addiction is almost as bad as my scrapbook paper one, the colours and patterns are just too pretty to cut up.

The result is drawers full of paper and baskets and boxes filled to the brim with fabric.

A symptom of my addiction is that I’m unable to throw away even the smallest, teeny tiniest pieces of paper and fabric, which is why I have bundles of these…..

Now, I could either make a quilt out of them, might take some time, or I could make some scrappy bunting!

To make your own scrappy bunting you need to get together the following

Sewing machine

Scraps of fabric

Iron on interfacing

Cotton twill tape

Pinking shears

Fabric pen

Ruler

First of all, lay out your fabric scraps right side down in a rectangle, mine measured 22cm x 72 cm.

Don’t have too many pieces layered up in one spot.

Place your interfacing on top of the fabric scraps, and iron on,

Cut the fabric in half, length ways.

Using a ruler and pen, mark out your triangles, not sure what the technical term is, but to get the maximum number of flags out of the fabric, I marked every 5cm along the top edge and every 7.5cm along the bottom edge, connecting the marks I got my flags!

Repeat on the other piece of fabric.

Using pinking shears, cut out the flags, trim off any excess pieces of fabric.

Using your sewing machine, sew the flags to the twill tape, don’t forget to back stitch on the first and last flag.

And there you have it, your very own scrappy bunting!

I’m going to hang mine up in my craft room when it’s finally finished, but for now, here’s some of it on the fire place!

There's lots more bunting than this, but our fireplace can only hold so much!

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