Conquering the nursery with the cunning use of flags

Any Eddie Izzard fans get that quote?

ANYWAY.  This is yet another post about craft projects in the nursery.  I decided to make it a little longer and have some how-tos, so I can be like the fancy bloggers that actually help readers to recreate what they made.  So if you don't care to read about all the steps, feel free to skip to the end to see the pictures of the finished product!

This blank space of wall was staring me in the face every time I walked into the nursery:

Just begging for something beautiful, right?

My favorite nursery on Pinterest had several great ideas, one of which being a lovely flag garland with the baby's name on it:

I also stole their oval frame between the windows idea and miraculously found that rug at a local antique store

So since I have a TON of fabric from past projects that needs a good home, I just had to grab some $1 a spool ribbon from Michaels (I bought 2 but used 1) to get started.

 

Seriously. So. Much. Fabric.

I already had a triangle stencil from making paper flag garland for my birthday party, which I cut from a piece of junk mail.

Waste not, want not!

Then I traced it onto the fabric twice, with one of the long sides touching so I could fold it instead of sewing two seams.

Let's minimize the work where we can!

Because the fabric was wrinkly, and to avoid having to pin the triangles in place, I ironed them flat with the wrong side out.

Behold, my iron.

Then I just sewed the one long side.

Wrong side out, don't forget!

After I did all twelve an turned them right side out, I decided to do two strands of six instead of one long one and spent a ton of time arranging them.  The ribbon is a nice black and white stripe, and I placed it with just a little overlap so that most of the flag was visible.

I cut the two strands of ribbon after holding them up in the available wall space, so the flags had to overlap a little to fit

Then I played with the placement on the wall with the help of my old friend, sticky tac, until I liked how they looked.  Four nails later, this is the finished product!

This is probably arrangement #15.  I messed with it a LOT.

And that's it!  Fun way to fill lots of space for a grand total of $1.  I may end up moving them if I get more sentimental art in there, but for now I love it.

Any one want to try it?  I still have way too much fabric for one person to use!