Hello there, happy Friday and welcome to the Creative Maze.
A couple of days ago, you may have seen
this post celebrating Dori’s
six year anniversary at her ‘From a Yellow House in England’ blog, and as we had decided to embrace creativity here at Labyrinthus XXI, I thought it would be fun to design and make a flag for her. Having never made a flag before, I sort of made it up as I went along, apart from the initial sketch that I scrawled on a piece of lined paper during our recent Skype chat. This post shows you in pictures how I did it. I’d really love to hear what you think of it, so please feel free to leave a comment below, or email me through the link on the sidebar.
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| 1. It started with a sketch... |
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| 2. Cut 2 identical pieces of calico |
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| 3. Cut some 'house' shapes from assorted fabric. |
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| 4. Apply house shapes to calico with wonderweb |
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| 5. Applied shapes - note, 2 pieces mirror one another |
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| 6. Zig-zag around shapes with sewing machine |
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| 7. Add basic detail to shadow houses |
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| 8. Add straight stitch window panes and sew on sequin door handle |
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| 9. View of front and back, and folded-in edges |
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| 10. Close up of folded & pressed edges - I then pinned the 2 pieces wrong sides together to sandwich all the unfinished edges inside, ready to stitch on the right side. |
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| 11. The 2 pieces have been sewn wrong sides together with straight stitch in contrasting thread. Slot was sewn for flag pole (a knitting needle!) and corners were finished diagonally with straight stitch in the same contrasting thread. | |
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