Grand Old Flag

She's a grand, old, flag

She's a high flying flag...

And forever in peace may she wave

She's the emblem of the land I love,

The home of the free and the brave

I found this strip of fabric in a box of fabric thata I got at a garage sale.

And I had an idea!  So I ironed it flat...

Then I used my rotary cutter to cut the flags apart vertically

Then I cut my finger with the rotary cutter while trying to juggle the camera.  This is a pic of the tourniquet I fashioned out of a  scrap of fabric because I didn't want to bleed on the flags but didn't want to stop what I was doing either to go get a band aid.

Then I cut the flags apart horizontally

Then I stitched the flags onto squares of burlap scraps that I had in my stash.  I wanted to make these into a banner/bunting.  So after each flag was stitched onto its square.  I took some tan yarn and laid it between the foot of my machine and laid it on top of the burlap.  I then zigzag stitched over the yarn so that it was sewn onto the burlap.  As I sewed across each burlap square.  I snipped the sewing machine thread then moved the yarn down before adding another burlap piece and repeating the procedure. 

This is what I got...

Happy 4th of July friends!
Tracey