bunting

the birthday setting

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

Abigail’s birthday was pretty as a picture - and a lovely day to boot!

[ party favours for the guests - we filled asian takeaway boxes with lollies, Abby provided the art work for the sides, and I found these dear little metal brooches of birds at a giftwrapping store - they looked straight from the [...]

A-Bunting we will go - Act 4

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

In which Miss Lily puts those dangly bits away and claps her hands with glee - you can never have too much bunting!
Okay - I know this Christmas folly has gone on and on a bit - I was always the student who could never keep to the word limit :-) - but this final [...]

A-Bunting we will go - Act 3

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

In which Miss Lily stitches binding, folds binding, irons binding, and then finally, attaches the binding to the triangles.

Okay - the binding.  I make my bunting in approximately 2.2 metre lengths - this is two widths of a standard piece of fabric.  So I cut two 2 1/2 inch widths, trim off the selvedges and [...]

A-Bunting we will go - Act 2

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

In which Miss Lily matches points, zigzags edges and performs delicate manoeuveres with dangly bits of thread.

Match up your triangles - one individual piece with one backing piece.  (As you might notice above, I had to use 2 backing fabrics for this batch of bunting as I didn’t have enough of either to make [...]

A-Bunting We Will Go!

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

A Christmas Folly in 4 Acts
by Lily Boot

Act 1
In which Miss Lily chooses fabric, draws lines and cuts triangles.

Gather your fabric - I like four individual pieces and a fifth which will be the backing of each of the four. This way you can alternate the triangles, creating a pretty repeating pattern on [...]