My First Etsy Purchase.

Just before I went away, I ordered my first item on Etsy. I've looked at it loads, as it's full of really quirky and original things but have never actually ordered anything. A good welsh friend of mine posted a link to my facebook page with some scraps of cowboy fabric on it which I instantly fell in love with and bought it on an impulse. By the time I got back home, it had been shipped from America (Los Angeles to be precise) to my rainy house in England. So today I popped to our local market to buy some fabric glue and binding tape to make some bunting with it!

The bundle cost me about £6 and so far each piece has had enough fabric to make 3 flags for my bunting. Now that I have the glue, all I will have to do is buy more binding tape which cost me about 80 pence for 2 metres. I think I will get at least one more longer bunting out of this or two shorter ones as 2 metres doesn't go as far as I thought it would! I am by no means great a sewing, but I've made bunting once before and you can only see it's imperfections up close! Plus, I prefer the look of it being 'rustic' which basically means it can look a bit rubbish because you've made it yourself.

It only took me about 1h 30mins and I stabbed myself just once on my left thumb, so really it was a pretty painless process. For the template, I used this website. It is SO easy to do, trust me!

Here is the fabric in all its cowboy glory.

This piece was what sealed the deal, however - I couldn't bring myself to cut it up so I think i'll just stare at it every now and then.

This was the template I used to cut the flags

To make it, I needed fabric triangles, the template, a pen, fabric glue, binding tape, cotton, pins and a needle.

I managed to get about 3 flags out of each scrap, with pieces left over for other crafty things.

All I had to do was draw these on using the template!

These are the flags, all ready to go!

I glued the flags using a small amount of fabric glue and pinned them in place and let the glue dry. I then did a simple straight stich by hand to hold the flags in place.

Can't wait to put it up!




Much Love xxx