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Step 1: Gather all your supplies:
fabric – ribbon – dried lavender – sewing machine – thread

Step 2: Cut your little pouch out of chosen fabric (size or shape is up to you, I used a piece of cloth from 6″ by 3″)

Step 3: Put face sides of fabric together and place your ribbon at desired location.
Sew around the edges and make sure you leave a spot open (approx 1-2″) so you can fill the pouch.

Step 4: Flip the pouch right sides out and fill with desired amount of lavender and sew the opening close (by hand or with your sewing machine).

Have fun!!

Thamar

Flags everywhere,

Bunting is a simple way to dress up a room or outdoor space. It makes me allways so happy and in a party mood seeing  these strings full of happiness. Because of that I decorated my house with bunting.

Here at Bamboletta we have in each corner something nice from dolls and bunting to pictures, paintings and cards (lovely cards and paintings we have gotten from you all).

Since we embrace color and love anything that has cuteness to it, here an idea for in your own house.

So my recipe for today is:

Take

*1 newspaper/magazine/colorful paper

*paper (for making a template flag)

*1 scissors

*1 pencil

*String (I bought some string at a nursery, nice and strong)

*1 Glue stick

*1 or 2 hours of your time(or as long as you want)

*1 or 2  empty wall(s) or window in desperate need for decoration

How it works:

-Decide how big you want your flags. I use different shapes and sizes all the time.

-Make a template of the first flag.

-Grab the newspaper/magazine or any other paper you decided to use, and fold the edge towards the middle

-Use template to trace your flag onto the newspaper and make sure the top of the flag is parallel to the fold.

-Cut a few layers in one go.

-Fold 1 flag, you just cut out, over the string and glue both sides and stick the glued sides together.

-Repeat this until you have string of bunting like your desire.

Last but not least……

Decorate one of your empty walls.

Lots of Crafting love,

Thamar

We have some cloth bunting for sale in our shop right now made from our beautiful Bamboletta fabrics!

I have been sewing Bamboletta Dolls for about four years and now I have the pleasure of helping Christina train new sewers.  So much thought, care and loving detail goes into each doll.  Doll making has been a part of humankind for a very long time and at Bamboletta we are so proud to be carrying on the tradition of this ancient craft.

For all of you aspiring dolls makers, in today’s blog I would like to share with you how we try to have our ankles go straight across on our 15″ and Little Buddies.  For me, it is so easy to have the line go all wonky, or start at a point on one side and end up way higher on the other side of the leg.  There are two options, either put pins in on either side of the leg or use a removable fabric pen and mark on the back side of the leg where you want your lines to begin and complete. Making sure to mark the backside or the mark will get lost in the gathering of the fabric.