Vintage Style Patriotic Banner

6 Materials
$8.00
3 Hours
Easy
I am already thinking Fourth of July and making a Fourth of July Banner this week. I really like adding a vintage feel to my patriotic decorations for the holiday.
Begin with two different fabrics.  I used this one that is blue with white stars and a bit of a vintage look to it.  I cut a triangle in a pennant shape from cardboard to use as my pattern.  Fold over your fabric and put the top of the pattern pennant on the fold.  I find it is easiest to cut around this pattern using a rotary cutter.  If you are using a rotary cutter, make sure you have a cutting mat beneath it.  You will make an equal number of pennants from each of the fabrics.
Open your folded pennant on an ironing board.  Cut fusible bonding web in pieces and place them down the edges of your pennant and place a piece about one inch below the fold.  Flip the top back over and press to fuse the fabric with an iron.  
You will now have a pocket at the top of your pennants to feed the rope for your banner through.  Repeat this alternating pennants of the two different fabrics on your rope.  
Next you will want to take an old book, I used a standard size paperback and tear out several pages.  Soak the pages in some brewed coffee for at least ten minutes and then carefully take them out and lay them out to dry.  Make sure the surface you lay your pages out is non porous, as the coffee could stain as the surface you are drying it on.
When your page is dry you will fold it back and forth in an accordion pattern.  
When your page is folded, you will fold that in half as shown above and add glue to the edges as shown and press together.  
This will leave you with a fan shape like this one.  You will need four of these for each rosette you will make.  
You will then apply glue to all of the sides to attach all of the pieces of your rosette together. 
Using a thin string or hemp cord and are large eyed needle, you will thread the string through your rosette so you can attach it to your banner.  
Thread your string down through your book pages on each side of your rosette.  If you are concerned your glue will not hold your rosette together, you can thread through twice, through each piece of your rosette.  Pull the string behind your rosette, you will use it to tie to the rope of your banner.  
Tie your rosettes between the fabric pennants and your banner will be ready to hang.  The second fabric I used was left from last year’s Fourth of July wreath.  
Your banner is ready to hang! This is definitely an indoor banner with the book page rosettes! This is a great project that can adapted for any holiday just by changing up the fabric you use for your pennants.
Suggested materials:
  • 1/2 Yard of star fabric   (Joann's)
  • Vintage patriotic fabric   (I had on hand)
  • Hemp rope   (Joann's)
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  • Ste12023629 Ste12023629 on Jun 05, 2017

    Stephanie,


    Georgia first time.


  • Jewellmartin Jewellmartin on Jun 06, 2017

    @Chloe , at first I thought that the project was much more complicated than it needed to be, until I saw the final banner. Oh, my! You can keep this banner for years! Question: Did you try to match the thickness and texture of the two fabrics? I realize they were bought at least a year apart, but they are perfect together.

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