Easter pennants

We’ve designed these pennants to be made from oddments of fabric you may have at home. They are purposefully small so that they can sit on a windowsill or work desk, bookshelf or decorate a lunch table. To make more of a style statement, scale up the pattern and make the pennants larger.

You will need

• Sewing machine
• Sewing thread
• Dressmaking scissors
• Pins
• Tape measure

Materials for each pennant:

• Oddments of fabric at least 30cm x 20 cm for the outer pennant
• 10.5cm x 17.5cm for the inner triangular shape
• 4cm x 23cm piece of tape
• Either a knitting needle or a piece of dowel or a twig

To make

1. Cut out the pattern and pin the larger piece onto the plain fabric and the smaller triangle onto the patterned fabric.
2. To neaten the larger triangle, using a 0.5cm seam allowance, pin, fold over and press and then fold over again and sew with a running stitch around the long sides of the pennant. Turn up the corner and sew as in the image.
3. Neaten the two long sides of the smaller triangle by folding over once and pressing. Make sure to turn up the bottom to create a flat end as in the image. Pin onto the larger pennant so that the raw edges line up. Sew onto the large triangle using a running stitch.
4. Press the seams flat. Cut a piece of 4cm cotton tape so it is 23cm long. Turn under the top and bottom edge of the tape by 0.5cm, sew with a running stitch. Fold the tape in half lengthways and sandwich the raw edge of the pennant between the two sides, sew as close to the edge as possible to form a tube. Close the tube at one end. Insert the knitting needle.

Project by Juliet Bawden - Photography by Antonia Attwood. This project was first published in WI Life magazine.