A wonderful pennant!

Dallin's carnival birthday party will be here before I know it, so today I made a fun pennant that will adorn some ez-up shade tents at the party. 

The things you will need:

- 1/4 yard each of FOUR coordinating fabrics

- 5.3 yards (16 feet) of 1" fold over binding/bias strip in a coordinating color (or you can get 1 yard of the fabric you would like as your binding strip and make it yourself following these simple instructions). Please note that I use the word binding and bias tape interchangeably.

- thread in coordinating color to match the binding

- pinking shears

- measuring tape

- disappearing ink fabric marker

- straight pins

Step 1:

Cut your fabric, using pinking shears, into pennant shapes (mine are 8" across the top and the point is 10" down from center). Cut 4 pennant shapes from each piece of fabric. You should have a total of 16 pennant flags. arrange your pennant's into the order you want them.

Step 2: 

Make your bias tape (follow these awesome directions). If you are using store bought binding/bias tape simply unravel it and start attaching the pennants to it (you may need to sew pieces of bias tape together to make it one continuous strip.

Step 3:

From the start of your bias tape measure in 9.5" and that is where you will insert your first pennant into the center of the binding. 

Secure it with straight pins. Continue pinning the pennants to the binding, being sure to leave a 3" gap in between them. Once the last pennant is secured , measure the remaining bias/binding tape to be sure it is 9.5". Cut off any excess.

Step 4:

Sew the binding/bias tape closed, while attaching the pennants to the binding.  

Step 5: 

Enjoy your cute pennant flag. You could even adorn it with felt letters to spell out special greetings. 

I hope this tutorial makes sense. Leave me a comment if you need me to clarify anything.

Happy creating, Megan