Mumsnet Bunting Project

[OnlyWantsOne]

My friend's village has a "bunting project"

everyone in the village is making one bit, or a few bits, and then they are all being put together by some little old lady and used to decorate their new community centre.

I thought it might be nice (if there are any takers?) to do a MN BUNTING?

we could then donate it - give it - auction it between MN'rs and give proceeds to a charity?

I'd love to organise it, and attach all the bloody bits together

so who wants to do a triangle?

Any one want to help me organise it? Dimensions of the triangles?

We should decorate the triangle with some thing personal and special to you, obv you have to be happy to have it seen (and owned) by some one else?

Any one up for it?

Bugaoo..??!! :D it arrived today! Will resize owo!! :D xx

Just reminding myself about this :)

me too

Include me in, too, please

What's the deadline pls?

ok so...

this fabric i like- is that the kind of cotton print that makes a good bunt?

i realise i'd have to choose the right cutting points.

or something like this? which is plainer but possibly could take some applique...or similar?

?thoughts?

plain cotton with applique? what weight of cotton? do we have a colour scheme to adhere to??

i'm just all questions today.

Ooh nice fabrics Eggy!
I think the general gist of it is is whatever we fancy, so it is a reflection of all our different tastes. There is no colour scheme but I think the bunt should be double sided.

I made a prototype, am now putting more thought into it and am going to applique on one side.

And moomin I think deadline is 30th July, but as that is looming I think it may get extended.

I have been wondering onlywantsone whether Winstons Wish was settled on?

Eggy, your second fabric choice made me . Go nicely with your camping gear!

We've settled on Winston's Wish for the blanket raffle once we've sorted all the legal side.

Not sure about the bunting though. What about PMing OnlyWantsOne, Sittinghippo?

Ooooh! If I can dig my sewing machine out, I will make one or two too! Might put my MN nn on it.

I've just been reminded of this, I'm not the craftiest but aspire to be and I actually do have a sewing machine...

The question is, is this beyond me Knotty?

Piste, not at all. Honest. Cut two triangles.(diagram up there somewhere ^) Put right sides together. Sew up the two long sides. Turn the right way around. Iron. Done. See?

i am sufficiently un-crafty to not know how to sew my own sewing machine, and therefore stitch everything...

It is a nice cheery fabric. i do like it. and i could keep the remnant for campingy things....

I could so do that Knotty..... I could actually contribute to a project instead of just loitering and getting in the way

I'm going to read everything on this thread and then tomorrow I am going to find my sewing machine.... I may have to practice first!

OWO - I really will try to send you a coupla that are acceptable......

Wish me luck everyone....

Oh! Do we only sew up the long sides? I've sewn across the top as well.

Do I have to unpick?

We need OWO here! I'll drop her a PM.

Cadle, I would say that would be fine...should work either way.

I made my instructions as simple as possible for Piste

Are we top stitching?

Knotty thank you for the PM

I shall try and answer some questions

eggyallen any colour you like, and fabric - it will be a complete jumble of tastes and style

knotty we havent settled for WW - MNHQ have to get back to me still

sittinhippo is perfectly right its meant to be "whatever we fancy, so it is a reflection of all our different tastes"

cadlecrap dont unpick, dont fret - the top seam will be hidden any way - between the fold of the cotton bunting tape

^you are all doing amazingly well, we can extend the deadline til end of August if thats better - sorry Ive been AWOL Ive been feasting on twitter and ignoring mn as its full of loons

any more questions or problems, just ask - If i go AWOL again, feel free to PM me x

x post cadlecrap yes to top stictch if you want...

On OWO's blog post she linked to, she says it's up to individual bunters to decide if they want to sew up the top :)

I'm quite tempted to do this - if my sewing machine arrives before the end of the month! I might have a go at some appliqué

Sorry x-posted

...and bless you Knotty, I really do need simple instructions. All this talk of appliqué makes me feel though!

Well I had a very nice time this afternoon looking at fabric as we crafty people like to call it, there is such nice stuff, I spent ages. My boys were a bit picky though and got a teensy bit grumpy. DH actually said that if I'm going to get into craft, could it not be home baking

I talked to a very nice fabric shop lady too, who told me how much 13 inches were in centimetres, and she loved the sound of the bunting project. There is a whole new world of crafty people out there for me

So, I shall get practising and hopefully OWO I shall have something to send. I am actually very excited I presume come the hour, someone will tell me where to send my efforts?!

when i think of applique my method would be
) buy a pre-made one
2) sew/iron it on.

that still constitutes applique, right?

Eggy, as I am a Craftie now, I can comment, and say yes without a doubt that is appliqué.....

< I actually know nothing>

I have bunted !!! Picture on profile - where do I send it?

i have bunted too...one anywya. the easy one that was jsut fabric.

where should i send it to?