A Big Shot Banner

I have had the Pennant Die for quite a while with the idea in mind of creating a banner to go over my sliding door for Christmas.

I bought my material as “fat quaters” from Spotlight and using the Big Shot and the Pennant Die cut out the small pennant using plain red material for the back, and alternating red and green for the front.  I also cut double sided iron on wadding to attach the front pennant to the back pennant.  I cut the scallops using some shimmery white material and used double sided iron on paper to attach them to the pennants.  I attached the plain red material to  the iron on double sided paper and then cut them using a sizzix alphabet die which I have had for a long time.  Once I had the individual pennants together, I used my sewing machine to sew around the edges to hold everything together.  I attached all the pennants to red bias binding 25mm wide and then hung it over the sliding door.

This picture shows a little more of the detail.   I love my Big Shot and keep on finding more and more ways to use it.  I have some more ideas for material and the Big Shot in mind and these include using a new die from the Summer Mini which begins on the 1st December.

My sewing skills are a little rusty, it’s a long time since I have done a lot of sewing but I feel some practice coming on.  I’d love to hear what you think of this idea.

Bye for now, Kris.