tutorials
A-Bunting we will go - Act 4
Thursday, November 6th, 2008In 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, 2008In 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, 2008In 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, 2008A 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 [...]
making your geese fly!
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008Having discovered how much fun it is to write and photograph a tutorial, here’s another one - The Making your Geese Fly Tutorial!
Now obviously, this isn’t even remotely an original technique (check here for basic instructions). But I only learnt of its existence a short time ago myself - thankyou Mistress Amy.
Nevertheless, adopting it has [...]