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Thursday 30 May 2013

The Homespun Party #2: Bunting


There cannot be a party without bunting. As the village hall I'm renting is quite big, I know that I'll need a lot, or it will look a bit lost. With the best will in the world, I'd never be able to make such a large quantity, to I turned to t'internet to see what I could find. I am pleased with these bold fabric flags which arrived today. They fit with my bright colour scheme and tissue paper pom poms and they are a really good size.



It's good to see some bright, cheery colours on what has been a very miserable week with two days of solid rain. Unable to go outside, I have made some bunting but it's in a completely different style.



I took a stack of old doilies and some bias binding and machined them together.


I made that sound easy, but it wasn't. It took me a whole hour to thread my machine and wind a new bobbin, as I am incapable of remembering how the machine works. It is so frustrating and just the way my brain is wired. But I persevered and managed not to hurl the whole lot out of the window. The stitching is dodgy in places, where the tension went slightly awry but it does look quite sweet and I am very glad to have used some of these:



I am sure I will find a little space for this in the hall, too. 



Yes, still a few ends to sew in :) but nearly there....

10 comments:

  1. Love the doily bunting - very vintage looking.

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  2. Your doily bunting is the bestest because you made it....it is charming in its simplicity I love it....D x

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  3. Thank you! I know that homemade is better, and if I was such a blithering idiot with the sewing machine, I'd make strings of it :))

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  4. All the best parties have bunting! :) x

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  5. Lovely bunting and I really like your new blog header - did you paint it yourself?

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  6. Thank you, yes I did paint them. I can't stop painting retro jars at the moment :)

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  7. Love the doily bunting its very pretty xx

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  8. Love the doily bunting it's all going to look so fabby xx

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  9. They are both gorgeous.

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