Year of Bunting Challenges So far we've had 2 Year of Bunting Challenges. The first was to decorate some furniture with bunting, and the second was to make some embroidered bunting. You can see what the winners made for the first challenge here. I haven't written up the second one yet, but there was a lovely cross stitch design on a bookmark, an embroidered needle case and an embroidery hoop thing with tassels and bunting. It's ... 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...
DIY Bunting Tea Towel
DIY Bunting Tea Towel There are lots of good things about being able to sew. One of them is that there’s no need to be trawling the shops or the internet because there’s something you want or need, and nothing you find matches what’s in your head! You can just make the thing instead. When I hit a gloomy patch, something that I find to be helpful is to remind myself of what's important and focus on that. Unsurprisingly my family are at ... Read the Post...
