Life in the Scrapatch: Banner Flags

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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Banner Flags "To Boston With Love" - Improv Heart

My "To Boston With Love" Banner

This is my contribution to

The Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild

announced today that this is the venue for this display is the

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

That is so amazing !!!

You may also read and see more by visiting

Amy @ During Quiet Time

who is receiving and arranging the display for this wonderful event!

Amy has photos of some of the lovely flags she has made and received
on her During Quiet Time Blog

Thank You, Amy!

Here is my third flag ...

This is an improv heart made mostly with scraps from my other flags.

I started with this pattern inspiration: Strippy Heart @ the VMQG

I gathered my scraps and sewed without a pattern.

I had some small strips between 1" to 1.5" of the pinks and reds, two solid blue strips and some triangles of the "love" fabric that I wanted to use.

I just had fun and played with the pieces.

Here are the photos of the sewing ...

piecing the pink scrap strips together

seeing how it might work

adding solid blue "sky" side strips

The rough idea for the triangle piece for the bottom of the heart is in this photo, too.

I just sewed pieces that looked like they might work together and

figured from there.

checking for size

The front of the banner needs to be 6.5" wide unfinished

and 8.5" long unfinished to make the 6" X 8" finished flag.

adding triangle to make the heart shape corners

These blue triangles are actually some I had tried sewing in the top unit that did not work so I used my trusty seam ripper to remove and reuse.

sewing on the bottom unit

This is a leftover triangle which I made an upside down flying geese block and added blue side squares to make it wide enough.

figuring the top

This is my second idea on how to use the smaller "love" triangles

to make the top heart points.

sewing sides to the heart points

this is the top unit before sewing

pressing well before I cut it down to size

my improv heart block

made from scraps

cutting down

to the 6.5" by 8.5" unfinished block size

I am pretty happy with the way this banner flag worked up.

It took about an hour of happy time in my sewing room to make this flag.

My little banner ready to mail.

To read about my Love Bird Banner flags click Here

Thanks to the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild for making this happen!

Thanks to all who send

"To Boston With Love"

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

It's For the Birds Blog Hop

From Boston With Love

"Peace by Piece"
Everywhere, every day
let us celebrate life, love and peace.

The
Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild
is hosting a very wonderful drive
to collect these banner flags to send then

To Boston With Love

For the free banner flag tutorials and inspiration
and to send flags to Boston which will be hung this summer
please click on their links ...

How To Make a Banner Flag

Heart Tutorials and Inspiration

Thanks to the VMQG for giving me this opportunity to
make something with my little hands
to add to the celebration of life and love in Boston.
I will be sending this flag to add to this banner.

These lovely little flags are so happy and sew easy to make.

I will also be making some to hang in my backyard this summer.

I hope to see them flying everywhere.

May you make these little flags and hang them in your hometown, too.

In your yard for friends and family gatherings.

In your home for your children and grandchildren.

Please consider making one to send to Boston, too.

Share the love!

Thanks to these little birdies for helping me to spread the word ...

from Sew We Quilt

My Paper Pieced Dove Block

The paper pieced pattern I used may be found in this book,

"For the Birds" by Jaynette Huff

These little banner flags are so fun to make I made two more.

I decided to make "Love Birds" in keeping with spread the love.

For these banner flags I used this wonderful ...

Free Bird Block Pattern @ Sophie Junction

Sophie also runs a block exchange blog site Block Lotto
and this was the block for April.

These little bird blocks were fun and easy to make by regular piecing
and became the perfect size for the banner flags by cutting
a little off the top and bottom borders after they were sewn.

Here is one of my little love birds in the making.

Here are my two love bird banner flags finished.

One of these will be on its way To Boston With Love.

The other is ...

My "From Boston With Love" Giveaway

I will send this little love bird flying to anywhere in the world.

ONE random winner will be drawn
from all the comments on this post.

Winner will be contacted by email
so must have an email address for me to reply.

This giveaway is open to anyone anywhere in the world.

I use google translator to read and reply to comments in other languages.

This giveaway closes at Midnight Eastern DST on May 15th.

Winner will be announced and emailed on May 16th.

Good luck wishes!