Christmas is coming!

Time I started to panic. I had an urge to make some Christmas bunting, not because I like it more than anything else but as a way to take some shortcuts with decorations both for myself and others. 

I found lots of sites online encouraging detailed embroidery, using doileys, and using up scraps. So I decided to experiment with some ideas. These are the three options so far using just random scraps. There is also an idea to attach some of my decorations.

The first decision was the size - I just guessed at 10" high x 6.5" tops cut size. 

The next decision was raw edge or turned inside out to hide the seams. Although the second idea appealed more it was really fiddly trying to turn through the point so I've abandoned that idea and gone for raw edge.

I even pinned on a decoration to see how that would work.

The hidden seams option was too too fiddly.

In my final plan I am doing raw edge with a fancy stitch all the way around. I then turned over the top for threading onto the ribbon. The three can be compared in the top photo.

I guess after lunch and a webinar on biology I'll get on and do some real Christmassy ones with red, green, gold, silver, yellow fabrics and features.