I have always enjoyed hanging flags out in my garden, and it was time for some new ones after the Tibetan prayer flags we put up around the garden fence for housewarming finally disintegrated this winter. I discovered Pinterest not too long ago, and got some great ideas looking through garden art pins to make my own flags out of old ratty fabric and quilt scraps. I have to be honest that I am not much of a seamstress, but sewing straight lines across the top of all these fabric squares was approachable, and I manged to find a use for all those colorful scraps just hidden away in a storage bin. As it turned out, I had accumulated quite a bit of fun fabric over the years, just waiting for the right project.
My daughter who is turning out to be quite the budding artist, painted designs to add a little extra pizazz.
Some of them even turned out to look like members of our family.
Care to guess who this one might be? My daughter has quite the sense of humor!
The ratty quilted pillowcases I cut up made some very fun flags and I was happy to give them a new lease on life.
At this point the garden is all planted and ready to go, and between the flags and Dude the Scarecrow, it’s looking mighty fine.
Now on to more projects. Pinterest is going to be trouble!
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