Bunting Flags for Boys Rooms Howto

Bunting flags are a popular choice of decoration for a nursery or child's bedroom, although the majority of garlands are made with feminine colours and pretty designs, not always suited to boys' rooms.

Being a mother of boys, and friends that have boys too, I have made a few bunting flags for boys' rooms decor.



I followed an online tutorial to make my bunting flags, which has since been taken offline. As I did not photograph each step, I include here, a hand drawn 'how-to' pictorial below:

How To Make Bunting Flags

You Will Need

Step 1
Draw your desired triangle shape size onto cardboard. Use a pencil and ruler for this. Cut your triangle shape out with scissors.



Step 2
Use your template and cut two triangles out of your chosen fabric. Leave yourself approximately 1cm of fabric around your template shape.



Step 3
Take your two pieces of fabric and lay them on top of each other with the best sides facing each other. Sew in two straight lines from the top of each side of your triangle, downward to the pointy end. I find that sewing two lines and overlapping them at the point is better than sewing one line and turning your fabric around at the point. important do not sew the top of your triangle, leave this side open.



Step 4
Turn your triangle the right side with the best sides out. Use your closed scissors to gently push down on the point inside of your triangle. Iron flat.

Step 5
Repeat the above steps using your cardboard template to cut the quantity of flags you require.

Step 6
Cut your bias binding strip to the appropriate length for your bunting flags, allow enough excess bias to tie into a loop either end of your flags.

Step 7
Fold your bias in half - it is better to iron flat. Place the top of your triangles next to each other, and pin inside your bias half. Sew in a straight line along your bias with your matching thread, ensuring the top of your flags are sewn in.



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Step 8
Tie a loop in your bias, both ends of your bunting flags, to hang on your child's bedroom wall.

The bunting flags for boys rooms I have made so far include a jungle themed bunting using zoo animal fabric in a charity shop, mixed with some tree printed material I already had. I used green double fold bias binding.







And secondly, bunting flags for our baby boy's nursery using comic fabric I collected from a freecycler, and scraps of Ikea material left over from a previous upholstery project.





I also wanted to make bunting flags our 5yr old son. As a Star Wars fanatic, I searched for Star Wars themed fabric, but found it to be really expensive and hard to come by in Australia, so instead purchased a ready made Star Wars bunting from an etsy seller in the United States.



Bunting flags for boys' bedrooms work really well as room decor, it really is just a matter of choosing the appropriate fabric.

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