Today I have put together a simple tutorial for a lovely Easter bunting decoration made from re-cycled linen napkins. There is only one row of stitching and as the napkins are already hemmed you will have a beautiful and professional looking display with very little effort. I have added some hand embroidery to my finished bunting but that it totally optional and if you choose to leave it plain it should take less than an hour from start to finish...
To start wash and dry your napkins, they should be fairly similar sizes but can be different colours or fabrics - in fact I don't know why I said they should be the same size, I can just picture a strand of different sizes and I bet it would look great! There you go, no rules!
Lay them out flat and cut across from one corner to the opposite one - leaving you with two equal sized triangles.
Next with the cut edge at the top, fold each of the outside corners towards the centre line as demonstrated in the picture above.
Turn over your folded shape carefully and cut straight across level to the cut edge - you will be left with two small tri-angles and one perfect flag shape.
Carefully trap all your cut edges using some bias-binding tape (either shop bought or hand made if you are really clever!) pinning as you go - you can reposition your flags at this stage so that they are evenly spaced, you can even measure if you like things exact!
Finally, use a stitch of your choice to sew along where you have pinned - be very careful to trap all the cut edges, it pays to go very slow at this point..and there you are a beautiful way of celebrating Easter (or any other time of year!) using materials that would otherwise be unloved, saving the planet and saving money too!
You can make as many or as few flags as you like - I made eight and intended to embroider 'EASTER' on the middle six, then I decided I liked them too much to only hang them for such a short time, so they ended up as a pretty way of remembering something very important to me this year....
....have fun and let me know if you make some too, I'd love to see the results if you are on Flickr...
