With a summer of celebrations upon us
(first The Queen’s Jubilee, and soon, the Olympics), now couldn’t be a better
time to festoon your home with decorations – vintage, lace-laden ones of
course!
All you need to make your own vintage
bunting is a selection of old doilies (fabric ones, though paper ones would
work too – just use glue instead of sewing them). You can often buy a bundle on
eBay, or if you’re lucky, someone in your family may have an stash simply
waiting for a use.
Once you’ve got your doilies – big or
small, the more variety the better – all you need to do is cut each one in
half. Find, or buy, a length of
cream-hued bias binding that’s wide enough to slip cut doilies in-between the
fold.
Arrange your cut doilies as you’d like them
to sit on the finished bunting, slipping them into the bias binding and pinning
them in place. Once ready, stitch the entire length of
the binding down on a sewing machine and voila - your very own vintage bunting.
