Sunday 7 July 2013

Little Bunting!

I mentioned last week that I had been doing a little crafting. Not a great deal with all my trips out,  plus work seems to encroach on my personal time more and more.
So I had whipped up a couple of owls, which i had previously shown a sneaky pic of!  It was just something that I fancied doing out of the blue, a nice quick easy project, a basic shape, nothing too fancy! After completing the main owl, I decided she needed a bubba companion!


I'll admit I've committed crafty naughtiness!! My owls were so close to completion, all that I had left was to stuff and sew them up, but instead I started a new project! The shame of it!!
In my head, for ages, I have wanted to do a collection of mini buntings. A selection of different styles, shapes and patterns. So I started with a flower. The pattern I took from 100 Flowers to knit and crochet book, I chose the Irish Rose, but only did the centre of the pattern, otherwise the mini bunting wouldn't end up that mini!! I did a test piece first, I did find it a bit fiddly in places and I changed a couple of joins to make it easier.

But once I knew what I was doing and I got into the flow, and before I knew it I had a whole bunch!!


I had a lovely reel of dusky pink ribbon tucked away, I knew this would be a perfect compliment for the flowers to hang along.


I wanted the bunting to be the width of my door. By putting a couple of pins in the door-frame I can then interchange the different styles of bunting quite easily.


I'm looking forward to making more, as they are small and easily transportable and doesn't feel too daunting a task in between work shifts. I quite fancy doing a daisy chain as I think that would look really cute, some hearts and maybe some fishies inspired after seeing 'Chickidees' display window! I might do some traditional bunting too, I'll just see where this project takes me!! When I get round to putting these in my Etsy store I will be able to offer the option of different colourways and different lengths if they don't want their bunting to be quite so mini!!!

10 comments:

  1. I had to smile when I rad that bit about making a few changes. Isn't it always that we know better than whoever wrote the pattern? Your bunting is lovely. Daisies would be great too. I can see lots of ideas coming from this one.

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  2. I love that book, as it was what got me back into knitting after a lot of years of not. But I have to skip all the crochet flowers, which is a shame as I think they are the best.

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  3. Love the bunting! I made some very similar in blue and cream using a flower from the same book as you! I like the idea of a row of daisies :)

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  4. great bunting - another change from the flag bunting!

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  5. Your bunting is gorgeous. I love the colours you've used.
    Ali x

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  6. Your bunting is really lovely - nice colours too. Hope you have a good week.

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  7. Craft naughtiness? It's something most crafters are guilty of, we get distracted so easily by the next great idea. Your bunting and owls looks fabulous.

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  8. Ooh the unfinished project... I think I finally "lost" one of those on a house move knowing I was never going to finish it!

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  9. Love your bunting idea! Really cute! A daisy chsin would look great too. Cc

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