https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/mini-fabric-cake-bunting • Posted by Christen D.
Make mini fabric bunting to decorate your cakes, tarts, pies or meatloaf. Go on, you know you wanna decorate your meatloaf.
Make mini fabric bunting to decorate your cakes, tarts, pies or meatloaf. Go on, you know you wanna decorate your meatloaf.
Cut your fabric into little triangles making sure, if you’re planning to stamp on them, they are large enough for each letter to fit.
Stamp the name of your birthday person or whatever phrase you please. If you don’t have alphabet stamps you could just draw the letters on with a permanent marker. In fact, I used a Sharpie to define and darken a couple of the letters I had stamped.
To begin sewing your flags together, first pull a length of both the upper and bobbin threads through your sewing machine so you have a nice long “tail” to play with later. NB: Not shown here but using different coloured thread in your bobbin will give you a lovely "bakers twine" effect with your thread.
Once you’ve done that, carefully feed in your first triangle and sew across the top. Here comes the part that might take a little practice. What you’re aiming for is a small, even gap between each little flag. To achieve this you need to just let your needle sew into nothing for about 6 stitches between each flag. Don’t pull your threads with any force as you’re sewing into the void or you’ll force through too much thread and end up with a gap that’s too long between each flagette. Having said that, it sometimes helps to exert just the slightest pull on the long threads at the back to keep everything moving forward. You might want to practise this on some scraps until you get the hang of how your machine behaves. After 6 or so stitches into nothing stop with the needle down and then line up the next flag against your needle. Once it’s positioned, sew across the top and repeat the process until you’ve sewn all the flagettes into place.
Following the instructions in Step 4 will give you bunting with your flags separated as in this photo. To make bunting with no gaps (like in the exmaples in the main photos above) you simply follow one flag with the next.
Tie your string to skewers and secure with dab of glue in place. Trim excess thread if you like. Gently stick your bunting into whatever you like and…celebrate!
To make these cards, cut and stamp your triangles then secure to the front of the card with small dab of glue stick or similar. Then simply sew them in place.