Birthday Crafting

Just wanted to share something super-cute I made for Sophie's birthday party. I had a ton of scraps of different prints of shabby-chic printed fabric and I wanted to do something fun with it, so I came up with this idea for a 'Happy Birthday' banner for Sophie's birthday party. (but I'm sure we'll use it more than just this time...)

So...all I did was trace my letters onto iron-on fusible paper and iron it on to the wrong side of my fabric. (follow the instructions on your fusible paper) Then I cut out all the letters. I used felt for my triangles because it's more sturdy then regular fabric and I thought it would lay nicely. After cutting my felt into triangles, I ironed on my letters to the felt.
After that, I added zig-zag stitching around each letter just to add a little something.
To connect all the triangles, I pinned them on to long pieces of ribbon and did a straight stitch on the top and the bottom of the ribbon so it was secure.

And that's it!

Super-cute banner to be used for princess parties and more tea parties and garden parties and...oh, I'm so happy to have a little girl :)
(but boys are super fun too ;))