Halloween Banner

I bought a yard of this scrumptious halloween fabric a few weeks ago at Joannes with the intention of making a table runner.  It was like $10 a yard (on sale) so I didn’t want to pony up enough money to make a whole table cloth.

Well, I found a table cloth that I loved at Target (bonus, it can be washed!) so I scrapped the table runner idea and waited for inspiration to strike.  I wanted to make some kind of banner anyway (Kate loved the Valentines Day one so much we left it up until April) so I decided to use this fabric to make a penant one.

First I cut the fabric into 10 inch strips with the rotary cutter.  Then I played around with the angle of the flags until I liked the look of it.  I ended up making the cut at 4 inches (so 4 squares.)  Now I could go all high school pre-cal on you and try to figure out the angle… wait, no I can’t.  lol.  Basically, the flag is 8 inches across, 4 inches from each right angle.

Could I be making this any less clear?  lol.  Cut some triangles, mkay?

Then I cut some skull ribbon into strips and laid it all out on some bat ribbon.  First, I tried a zigzag stitch thinking it would help hold the lightweight fabric better, but it looked strange with the bat ribbon so I ripped it out and did a straight stitch.

I so love the way it turned out.  Now, I cut waaaaay too many triangles.  Any thoughts on what else I can do with them?

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