Bunting Flags Everywhere!

A great use for leftover fabrics is flags. 

A couple of friends and I do a cancer fundraiser each year, so in 2016 we decided to pool our fabric stashes and create strings of flags to sell.

Bunting flags are very easy to make, and we cheated big time. Pinking shears/scissors. 

These scissors have serrated edges that cut a pattern in your fabric. It's a quick-fix for the edges of fabric, as it cuts it on angles and slows the fraying process. Rather than hemming hundreds of individual flags, we just cut them out! You can see the serrated edge below. 

Using scraps of fabric, I sewed lines for the flags to hang from, just folding the material over and catching as many rough edges as I could. Buying ribbon or bias tape to use would have been terribly expensive, and mean that less could go towards charity.

Some of the end results:

The ones in Indigenous fabrics were the best sellers, but some others were quite popular too. As we had permission to hang them and sell them at work, a few are also up around people's offices! Whatever makes you happy ☺

We made several hundred dollars from sales, and used the leftover flags to decorate our team tent on the fundraiser night as well. Unfortunately it poured with rain.... they held together though!