Hahaha, I do give instructions and I'm always making bunting Do you have a sewing machine or sewing skills, friday? Maybe I should say it's definitely harder than brain surgery or rocket science but I'll make some for £200. Nope, it's dead easy. But I'm calling any children I may have in the future Nia, Ian, Tim, Ann or other short names.
Here are the instructions I posted on our post-natal thread back in June. The instructions are for superior bunting because when they flap in the wind you don't see the wrong side of the fabric.
You will need:
Fabric, including ideally a largely plain fabric for making the lettering so that it stands out.
Tape - the woven type from fabric shops, and it needs to be quite wide [Because it's fiddly otherwise. Bias binding is a bit tricky to handle, and ribbon is awful.]
Pins
Bondaweb - in sheets, it's iron on.
An iron
Some sewing ability - can be avoided though.
First cut your flags into equally sized triangles - you can draw a template on a piece of card. The triangle needs to be the type that has longer sides than the top (I was sh!t at maths). You need an even number.
[Size - I make mine roughly 20cm in length or so (i.e. top to the point of the triangle). Too small means fiddly sewing, so be generous.]
Onto the WRONG side of the bondaweb, that's the rough side which you MUST NOT touch with a hot iron, draw your letters, or trace from some printed lettering (i.e. type the name on a computer, make it massive, print).
Cut them out, and iron them onto the WRONG side of your lettering fabric (the back). Then cut around each letter. They should, if you've done it right and listened properly be the right way and not mirror image!
Now peel the paper off the back of the letters and iron them onto the right side of your triangles, with the point of the triangle pointing down.
You should now have flags with your child's name on.
Options: 1. leave them as they are (but they might fray) 2. Blanket stitch by hand around the letters in the same colour or a different colour 3. Machine zigzag or satin stitch (solid zigzag) around the letters.
If you are doing 3., the top tip is to put a piece of printer paper eg. an unpaid bill behind the flag and sew through the paper - this gives more stability and control. And GO SLOW. Then tear off all the paper.
Now you need to sew your triangles together to have double sided flags. In pairs, pin the right sides of the triangles together i.e. top side of the fabric to top side, flowers to flowers, or letter-flag with flowers etc. Sew them together, following a v: from top down to the point and back up to the top. No need to sew the top together. DON'T sew across the point.
Once that's done, snip the point off each triangle, and turn them the right way out. You can use a pencil to carefully push out the point. You can also iron them to make them lie well.
Finally, the binding tape. I iron my binding in half first, and then pin the flags inside the fold. You should have a row of flags tucked inside the folded tape, with the open tops of the triangles all hidden. This is the trickiest bit. You now need to sew them in place. If you're good with a machine, sew straight along the bottom of the tape. Alternatively zigzag. Or hand stitch. You need to ensure that all the flags are secured and won't flop out.