After looking on several websites for ideas, I began this fabric pennant banner. My sweet 6 year old niece Sadie recently had a liver transplant. Her liver failure came on very suddenly and randomly. We live a few states away, so we have been unable to visit her. Hopefully, this will brighten up her hospital room.
When I went to Joann Fabric to pick out fabrics I found a stack of 5 coordinating fat quarters for $9.99. Lucky for me they weren't on sale, so I was able to use my 50 percent off coupon and score them for five bucks. I'm not sure how well you can see the fabrics, but they have princesses, castles, frogs and flowers on them.
To cut the triangles I folded the quarters in half lengthwise so they measured 22x9. Then I used the rotary cutter and cut them to a width of 7 inches and length of 9 inches like this.
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This made 5 double sided pennants of each fabric. The only tricky part is that two of the fabrics have a definite right and wrong way up so I had to rearrange the triangles and only got 2 pennants that were right on both sides. I used the least number of pennants from these two fabrics.
To make the letters I used a tupperware type lid for as the template for the circles. Then I printed out letters from here. I printed them out at %125 to get them the appropriate size. Before I traced and cut letters I ironed on wonder-under to the letters so that I could iron them on instead of pinning. Then I traced, cut, and ironed, and then sewed the letters onto the circles and then ironed and sewed the circles onto the fabric. This is actually a double sided banner. The opposite side says, Welcome Home Sadie.
After I had stitched on all the letters and circles I serged them together so I wouldn't have to stitch and turn. Just be sure at this point that your front and back side letters are matched up correctly.
Finally, I pinned on extra wide double fold bias tape to attach the whole thing together. I pinned tons (about 3 pins per pennant or a pin every 2 inches) and then sewed it all together.
