Liven up a party or create a focal point in your home with this fun and festive bunting! Use a cute heart print for Valentine’s Day or a birthday party and update the fabrics for any holiday or occasion. It’ll provide the perfect backdrop for your gathering! Download printable instructions. Download template.
Materials:
- Six different ¼ yard pieces of coordinating fabrics for the bunting triangles
- ¼ yard contrasting piece of fabric for the binding
- Matching thread
- Ruler and rotary cutter
- Iron
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Steps:
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Using your ruler and rotary cutter cut around the template.
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Tip: If your fabric is directional face the pattern towards the point of the triangle
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Cut a front and a back for each pair totalling 12 pairs of triangles 24 triangles in total
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Attach the ¼” foot and set the machine to a straight stitch (middle) for general sewing selecting a 2.0mm stitch length
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Thread the machine and bobbin with matching thread.
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Sew right sides together leaving an opening at the top to turn right sides out.
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If you have the pivot button on your machine this is a great time to use it.
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The pivot function raises the pressure foot up when you go around corners allowing you to sew much faster without slowing down to raise and lower manually.
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Once you have them all sewn turn right side out.
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Use a point turner or other blunt object for smoothing the bottom corner to get a crisp point and trim off the two dog ears at the top of the open bunting.
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Press each one flat with your iron.
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Now it’s time to make the bunting hanger.
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Cut your final piece of fabric: 3 strips at 2 ½ inches and the width of the fabric.
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Join the two ends using a 45-degree mark on the wrong side of your fabric. A heat-removable pen or iron-off pen works well for this.
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Be sure to pay attention to any directional fabrics and make sure your triangles’ patterns are facing the same direction!
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Fold over and press. Cut off excess fabric from this cut seam.
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Iron by folding in half to provide a nice center crease. Open up and fold each raw edge to that center crease and press.
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I also like to fold the ends in so I have no raw edges showing.
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Then fold the binding in half again creating a fold for your flags to be inserted in.
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Attach your first flag to the binding strip 10” from the start with wonderclips.
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Start at the beginning of your strip and start to top stitch down the opening of the binding enclosing all the open edges.
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Use a straight stitch on 2.5 stitch length. Ensure you are sewing both the front and back of the triangle to the hanger. Go slow if you need to.
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When you are ready to insert your next flag place it corner-to-corner from your last one.
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When you come to the last flag finish stitching it. Then mark the binding strip 10 ¼ ” from the end and cut. Fold over the raw end edges and sew to the end.
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The overall project will be approximately 110” long
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
