Hand-Made Sunday

I'm making some fabric bunting for the wedding.  I'm making a lot so I wanted to make it in a time efficient manner.  Here's how I'm doing it...

Here was all the supplies that I needed to make the wedding bunting.

After buying the fabric that I wanted to make my flags out of I found this pinking shear shaped rotary cutter.  It would have taken me a full day of cutting fabric to get all of the flags with my pinking shears.  This rotary cutter only took me one distracted hour while watching Gilmore Girls.

I should have taken a better picture of the flags because each pile is about 2 inches tall of fabric!  That's a LOT of flags.

I use this bias tape to sew the flags too.  Double fold really looks much better than the single fold.  I bought this on accident.  It cost considerably less than the double fold, so I'm not that upset about it.  You saw how many flags I have, so I'm going to need a lot of that tape!

It's really too much of a hassle to pin the flags to the tape, so I just take it as it comes.  I line up the end of the flag under the fold of the flag.  I put my needle in it and then line up the rest of the flag.  I used a zigzag stitch because it's cute and I think it will hold well.

I just keep it lined up by holding it together with my fingers.

Here is the end result!  It's a line of flags.  They are going to add a lot to make that wedding atmosphere in my outdoor wedding.

Hand-Made Sunday

Here is one of the things I've been making this week...

First step is to buy 600 muslin bags from etsy.com. Step two:  went to local craft store and bought this stamp on sale and the ink pad.

So I stamped the muslin bags with the leaves and half of them with this bird stamp too.  It's a hint to what is going inside the bag, as well as, a way to differentiate these from the other muslin bags that I'll have at the wedding filled with a surprise.

I went to Lowes and got bags of seeds for a good price.  I picked out the only seed mixture that I could find that didn't have black seeds.  I don't want to have black seeds stuck in my dress for the rest of the day.

After stamping all of the bags, one of my bridesmaids and I filled them with the seeds.  Here is what 300 muslin bags look like.  That basket is heavy too!  It took about 15 lbs of seeds to fill those suckers.  

They all look nice and personalized for my fall wedding.  You could always stamp it with anything like a monogram and your wedding date. I just wanted to bring in our fall theme.