Saturday, August 13, 2011

Banner project up and running

 Here is the original drawing of the banners I am making for the Camelia Waldorf School here in Sacramento.....
and here is the first two sided banner....I originally was going to make one banner and cut out the back fabric so the image showed through to the other side, but it looked terrible...we have too much design..didn't work at all......so I started the banner over again, made two and layed them back to back, sewed up the sides and put a sleeve on the top and it's ready to hang...all it now needs is a grommet at the base inside to hold it on the pole so it doesn't flap all over the place.  And the half banner is on the sewing table right now...I'll only have to make one of them as it's only strips and I can cut the back out of the white stripe and it will look OK....Now I need to make two more sets...by the end of the month....and I've run out of the base baby blue color, so I'm out the door in a few minutes to see if I can track some down locally....I've ordered through the internet and it's being shipped, but I need to start NOW...so I can at least find something close enough to the blue to make another set before the other fabric arrives.....huge project for me..lots of detail work and this nylon fabric doesn't cooperate...I've even come to gluing a few pieces that are mini so they stay on before I sew them down.  I now know why these flag companies charge so much for the finished piece...lots of work!!!!

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