British Bunting

I think I might be a tiny bit a lot addicted to making bunting. You might remember the Blue Birthday Bunting  that I made for my Little Man - it was only last week:) I loved making it, and I had hoped to have loads more in different colour-ways made since then. That wasn't to be though - it's been a busy week - but in between haircuts, tummy bugs, secondary school visits, washing machine floods, homework traumas, children falling off bikes, and building a new swing set thingy in the garden, I did manage to make two 12-flag strings of bunting for my friend's daughter's fundraising stall at the local fair tomorrow.

With any motif-based pattern I like to do all the round 1's first, then all the round 2's and so on.
At the end of round 1 I had a decision to make - a sort of solid motif like the Birthday Bunting, or a granny square design. I made a 3 round motif of each to help the decision-making ....

.... so hard to choose! In the end I went for the solid design for my friend, and the granny design for my bike :) Hurrah, everyone's a winner! I spent as much time as I could working on the bunting in the garden .....

.... and it didn't take long to have a couple of dozen little triangles completed....

.... then of course I had to deal with the ends, join the triangles together and apply the blocking magic .... and ta-daaaa ..... here's a finished string of bunting decorating my herb planter ....

.... and on the new wooden fort and swing set we built in the garden this week ....

.... and tied with pretty ribbon ready to give to the recipient ....

.... and so on to the next lot, for my bike ....

I'm so looking forward to the weekend ahead - hopefully it will be dry, we are off the the fair tomorrow (looking forward to seeing my bunting for sale!) and this will be the Little People's first weekend with their new play equipment in the garden. I'm going to sit outside and crochet whilst watching them playing lots of their "pretend" games - houses, defend-the-fort, schools, obstacle courses ..... I love seeing their imaginations run wild :) It truly makes me completely content and happy :)