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Bunting for decorations
As previously mentioned, my friends Louise and Nathan are getting married soon on the SS Great Britain, and their wedding has a slight theme of a coronation party. The only problem was that they weren’t sure what could be hung around the room where the band will play, and it was going to look a bit bare.
Somehow I got persuaded into making some bunting for the room, which seemed like it would be a massive task, but once I actually got down to it (after cutting the flags out!), it was pretty simple really!
I pretty much made it up as I went along, after looking at some pictures of bunting to get an idea of what the hell I was going to do!
- laura_southpaw added Bunting to Keep Calm and Party 12 Apr 20:08
- Bayou Jenn added Bunting to Buntings, Garlands, Banners 16 Jun 00:40
- WaterAngel added Bunting to Misc. 04 May 22:35
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Step 1
My pattern for bunting was basically take an A4 sheet of paper, fold it lengthways, then cut a diagonal line, leaving me with a isosceles triangle shaped template. I traced around this onto my fabric (quite thick cotton fabric from Fabricland [don't visit that site if you value your eyes] which was £4/m) and cut out 64 triangles.
This picture is of me settling down for a night of cutting fabric, eating ice cream and perving watching Jason Dohring in Moonlight
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Step 8
I worked out how much bias tape I needed, but in the end, it was more of a lucky guess. I thought I needed 20m of bias tape, but could only get 14 and a half, which turned out to be just about enough.
Each flag has a gap of 10 inches between, and there is an extra 15 inches on each end with a D-ring sewn on to hang. I will take extra D-rings with me on the day to sew on in the right places
sounds like a trek but i'll be sure to give it a go