Candy Corn Halloween Bunting

Those of you that have been reading my blog for a while will know that I rarely share holiday decor projects.  It's not that I don't like the holidays, but it seems like so much work to set up decorations, and convince Clark to leave them alone. So you may be surprised that I'm posting some holiday buntings or garlands.

Aside from being one of my favorite halloween candies, I think that candy corn is rather cheery.  This bunting started out with orange felt triangles, and then I stitched on the white and yellow pieces.  The individual flags were then sewn to a piece of extra wide double fold bias tape.

I also made a few trick or treat garlands for my bazaar booth.  I love the font, and think that it is perfect for halloween.  The font that I used was Arcanum, and it can be downloaded for free from urbanfonts.com.

What Halloween decor projects have you been working on?  What is your favorite holiday to decorate for?

Scrap Birthday Bunting

I decided to make a super easy bunting with some of the scraps that I have stashed away.  Mr. C has a birthday coming up next month, and Stashbusting September gave me a little motivation to put those scraps to good use.  If you look closely at the fabric choices you will see bits and pieces of changing pads, reversible toddler bibs, jelly jar toppers, quiet book page scraps, and torn bed sheets.  I thought that it turned out nicely.

I've seen these scrap buntings all over blogland and thought that I might as well give it a whirl.  I made my bunting about 7' long, and used strips that were between 7 and 10 inches long.  I tied all of my scrap strips onto a bit of extra length from my clothes line.

I can't wait to try another bunting.  I am dying to try a pennant bunting, but it looks like a bit more work than I am willing to put in at the moment.

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