Tutorial: How to Make Fabric Banner

It's the typical end of the year craziness when school project, report, test, and presentations are due on top of the usual: teaching, cooking, cleaning, laundry-ing, and carpooling by the end of the day I am too tired to do anything else but sleeping.

On Mother's Day, I wanted to sew something that I have been wanting to make for a long time: fabric banner. There are probably tons of tutorial out there but I just want to go right into sewing so I did it my way.

First, make a triangle pattern on paper. The one I make was 7 inches wide then mark the middle point at 3.5 inch:


then go straight down to the 7.5 inch mark. Connect the points then you get your triangle:


fold the fabric then use fabric marker to copy the pattern to your chosen fabric. I used 6 different fabrics but you can use less of more as prefer.


I make four two-sided triangles with each fabric


the folded one looks like this:


iron them one by one:


then arrange them in a way you want it to be displayed:
 

put them on top of each other:


then start sewing the sides on zig-zag mode {or use serger if you own one}




I happened to have a left over 1 inch fabric rope to sew them on:


Fold it into half and iron:


Open the fold, sew  the triangle at the folding line:


then fold the rope back and sew again:


That's it. I am done:


It brighten up the room and never fail to make me smile every time I see it.  Didi even requested me to make one for his room.


Now you can make one for yourself. ;)