Finally, the bunting is finished. It is painfully obvious that I am an absolute beginner as far as sewing is concerned. Things I learned while making this particular thing:

1. It does actually make sense to buy heavy-weight, good quality fabric when any degree of precision is required. Both fabrics used here were of relatively poor quality, unfortunately. I am now very intimately acquainted with my seam ripper.

2. I need to invest in yet another tape maker. I had to use the smaller one of the two that I have. The resulting tape was way too small in width and I had serious trouble folding it around the tops of the triangles to sew. Hence the backside of said triangles looks terrible – I need to see if I can somehow fix that later, but for now it’ll have to do, as I have more sewing projects to take care of before the Munchkin’s birthday.

3. Doing appliques was not as easy as I thought it would be. I found going around the bends inside the letters quite difficult.

Behold, the bunting:

Well, you certainly never cease to learn. I will get started on the Munchkin’s birthday dress tonight. And maybe add repainting our table to my ever growing to do list.

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