Thursday 30 September 2010

B is for...

Beatrix, Birthday & Bunting.

Baby got a last minute invite to celebrate her friend's 3rd birthday (I know that means I can't get away with calling her a baby much longer). With various school runs and wot-not I had little opportunity to get to the shops to buy a present, so decided that something home made would be just the ticket.


After a quick rummage in my cupboards I came up with: a piece of calico, some transfer paper (one of my favorite inventions), pink thread and bias binding and, hey presto, I whizzed up some personalised bunting. Every little girl likes a bag so one was made to match, and in went the bunting. It was finished off with a little badge made out of a couple of suffolk puffs and an old button.

8 comments:

  1. So lovely. I would have stopped and congratulated myself at the bunting, but the bag elevates it - as a girl I would have had hours of fun, folding the bunting up and putting it in and out of its special bag!

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  2. Beautiful. I expect that went down a treat! Lizzie

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  3. very pretty and just perfect for a little girl

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  4. So special! How about a tutorial please - never used transfer paper!

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  5. Wish it had been MY birthday.
    Delightful.
    A very lucky little girl to receive such a lovely present.

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  6. I was thinking of making a Christmas version. I'll do a tutorial then, but you can buy transfer paper online.

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  7. Hi Jo, could you tell me what typeface your letters are please....really lovedthem....you are so clever....

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  8. Hi, the typeface is Imprint MT Shadow.

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