Year of Bunting July Challenge: Bunting For a Card or a Cake Over the last 10 days or so, it's somehow become July. So it's time to have a look at what people who took part in June's Year of Bunting challenge made! There was only one entry last month. It was this bunting from Hazel, cleverly made from compost bags. This isn't something I would have ever thought of doing, so it didn't make it onto the list of possibilities when I ... Read the Post...
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Free Crocheted Bunting Pattern
Free Crocheted Bunting Pattern Making crocheted bunting is a fun way to use up odds and ends of yarn from other projects. This pattern shows how to make traditional bunting triangles, worked in the round. The triangles are quite small, although obviously that depends on the weight of the yarn and the size of hook you use! If you want to make your flags bigger, you could go round again a couple of times. There are instructions for doing ... Read the Post...
Bunting Tote Bag Tutorial
Bunting Tote Bag Tutorial This is a post I actually wrote 3 years ago when a new law was introduced in the UK that required shops to charge for plastic bags. I'm recycling it because it fits in nicely with the Year of Bunting! For making the bunting tote bag, I'd recommend using a strong fabric, like a heavy weight cotton. The canvas I used was left over from some curtains I'd made, and the appliqued bunting from scraps of cotton from ... Read the Post...
Ideas For Bunting Embroidery
Challenge 2 for 2019 The Year of Bunting is to sew some bunting embroidery. The post that explains the challenge is here. If you or the people you live with don't want bunting hanging up everywhere, or if you already have a lot hanging up, this is a nice, easy alternative. It doesn't take very long (once you've decided what to do of course!), and you can either make it part of a new project or add it to something you have already. If you ... Read the Post...