Tolentreasures

  These have been in the back of my mind for awhile. Pennants with a twist. So, after cleaning the sewing room, I messed it up again. I am always buying boxes of linens and hoarder than I am, I cannot stand to throw any of them away. Even the stained, ripped ones.   This is what I decided to do with them. Bits of fancy needlework...salvaged! Lots more to go!    The original pennant tutorial is here   http://tolentreasures.blogspot.com/2012/11/free-pennant-tutorialvery-easy.html   The only twist?   The serger on the edges.   I bought this serger from a friend this summer.   It has sat and sat and sat.   So after dusting and cleaning and Olympic gymnastic acts to get it threaded, it is working!     How fun are those machines?  

  First of all, I bought this drapery lining thinking it was the Roclon product that everyone is painting on.   It was not.  So it was tossed into the stash.   In the archeological dig that I am calling Painting My Way Out Of My Paint Room , I unearthed it. In the middle of the night, it came to me... Pennants!   So here is what I did. Made a template.    Vinyl flooring makes the greatest patterns!   You can choose what size you make, it's pretty simple fourth grade geometry. Make sure that you make that little area on the top to fold over. Trace them onto the fabric. Now I know that I could have utilized this better by making them go both ways. But honestly, I have lots and it was cheap. You can see that I started alternating them and then thought, "why?" Paint them your choice of colors, painting right over the lines.   Because really, staying in the...

First of all, I had big plans for yesterday. I had a list. A big list. But first, I wanted to try to make a set of these pennants for my camper. And that is where the day went awry. They were just too much fun! Seven sets later... and nothing on the list done... the least I can do is tell you how to make them. You will need: Scraps of material Backing fabric Heat and Bond Double fold wide bias tape Sewing machine Scissors or Rotary Cutter. OK, to start. If you don't have a rotary cutter and mat, you will need to make a pattern from cardboard of a pennant. I cut some 6 inches by 8 inches, 4 inches by 6 inches and 4 inches by 5 inches. Cut a rectangle any of these sizes, find the middle of the smaller end and draw a line from the upper corner to that middle line on both sides and cut out. It is much easier with the rotary cutter. When you have enough cut, iron the heat and bond onto the backing fabric....