How to Make Fabric Advent Bunting

Advent is always a fun tradition to follow at Christmas time. Make yours extra special this year by making some fabric advent bunting, a great make that will last for years to come, and you can fill with your favourite things!

Time to make : FIve to six hours with sewing machine, more if by hand.

Suitable for : Beginners

You Will Need

Craft Essentials

An iron
Needles
Sewing Thread
Fabric scissors

How to Make

First of all we need to make a template. Take the Graph Paper and using the squares as a template, draw a rectangle nine squares across by 16 squares up. Then draw a point in the centre from the top (4.5 squares in) at five squares up. Alternatively you can just draw this straight onto paper using centimetres (9×16). Cut it out.
Cut two pieces of fabric, one will be the outside of the envelope and the other will be the lining.
Place your fabric right side to right side and sew together, leaving an inch at the bottom to enable you to turn it right way in again.
Once sewn, snip off the corners and the top of the triangle (take care not to snip your stitches though) so it makes a neater finish once turned.
Turn your work the right side out and iron it flat.
Stitch a neat line right across the bottom where the open part was. Try and get your stitches as close to the edge as you can.
Then fold the bottom part up to where the point starts and pin it in place.
Starting at the bottom corner, sew a neat top stitch line close to the edge all the way around.
Your little envelope should now look like this.
Hand sew one of the little wooden hearts to the point of the envelope and a press stud underneath to fasten. Now go and make another 23 little envelopes.
Take your cord, and leaving a little at the end to tie a loop for hanging, attach the cord just inside the flap of an envelope with a few tiny stitches. Secure the other side with a few tiny stitches too. No need to stitch all the way along.
Once fastened your envelope should look like this.
Add your other envelopes leaving a small space of around one centimetre in-between each one.
And finally, add your numbers to the wooden hearts by using a paint pen.