Friday, 3 August 2012

How To Make Easy No Sewing Bunting

By Sally Darling


As you've arrived I'd be willing to bet you have a special occasion on the way? A wedding or perhaps garden party? Or maybe not, perhaps you're just looking for an additional bit of country chic in your little life?

Well one has come to the right place. Bunting can do all that for you and a lot more. But How To Make Bunting? I hear you ask. Well we'll get to that in a moment.

Once upon a time bunting was a word Grandma would drop into talk when regaling tales of the tea party with Betty and Mavis. A thing we associated with the damp, miserable village gala with the damp bouncy castle and the tepid trifle. Not any longer. Bunting has made a return, a thing of quintessential englishness that evokes patriotism, fervor, peace and happiness. All this from a piece of cloth hanging from a string? Yes I say, oh yes indeedy. Bunting has made a comeback, along with the Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Paul Simon bunting is cool again and long may it continue.

The thing about bunting is that it evokes all sorts of wholesome emotions. We associate it with that most special of days our wedding day, we associate it with the queen and all that is good and honest about England. We associate it with that most quintessentially english of things the garden tea party.

What is not to like about bunting. It's the most beautifully elementary and luxurious of things. It can brighten up the most exhausted of spaces, it can add a dash of panache to any party. My recommendation if you're thinking about getting hold of some bunting would be to keep your purse safely in your Mulberry and make some yourself. Me and my girlfriends have spent many a delighted hour with a glass of wine and a sewing machine and have created some of the prettiest bunting I've ever seen and had a darn good time in the process.




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