bunting.why?

[carlajean]

whenever I go on a craft website there's stuff about bunting. am I the only person who doesn't get it. I mean, what's the point of spending hours making the stuff, and what do you do with it when you've made it?
and anyone who posts saying it's a 1st world problem can fuck off. I don't care.

I don't get it. I went to a night out with my sister and her friends from her son's school and they were all so crafty and sewing bee-y I didn't know where to put myself. One of them said she made bunting from her husband's shirts, and for some reason I thought he was dead and this was her sweet way of remembering him. Luckily I asked my sister how he'd died and after she had stopped pissing herself laughing, she said he was alive and well and worked for the council! Huge faux pas narrowly avoided!

MrsPennyApple - you could make wedding bunting that spells out:

W E A S K E D F O R C A S H O R V O U C H E R S

and

W E S A I D N O C H I L D R E N

That will show the bunting pushers what you think of them.

MrsMacFarlene - I will have to try and watch it. It sounds very funny.

We bought some Laura Ashley bunting for DD's room. This was when we swopped rooms around and she went into the masculine spare room. It made it look more like "her" room as it was pink and pretty. We've now painted the room but she (age 4) still wants the bunting up.

Don't see a problem. But then I bought mine, in a sale, rather than spend hours making it.

SarahAndFuck I like it! :)

What do you do with antlers?

manyofhorror3 I could make a marquee out of my dh's old shirts (that he refuses to throw away)

I am just gearing up to make some bunting for my summerhouse for no other reason than I think it will look pretty!

I think I will take it down at the end of summer though as frozen stiff bunting probably looks a bit sad.

Stealth - tbh, I'm getting about 1 word in 3

You could all be calling me terrible names and I'd never know it

Antlers I do Not get.

Bunting, hearts, butterflies and twiddly bird cages with open doors, birds and oriental type flowers. Fine.

Random decapitated heads, covered in flowery paper-weird

(I should add that this shops fabric and other stuff is lovely, which makes the antlers and naff bird houses even odder).

MrsMacFarlane - I've just got todays Superscrimpers on Demand.

There's a woman making bookmarks out of felt and paperclips. I've never seen such a pile of shite in my life, the felt was all crumpled up and she claimed to be cutting out flowers but they were definitely circles.

Now there's a woman sewing beads to old doilies, to make covers for water jugs.

These were supposed to be presents for people. I bet they were thrilled.