Grand Slam of Craftiness: The Tutorials

Here are the tutorials for the craft-licious things I made for the baseball birthday party....

The Pennant

You will need:

1 yard of fabric for the pennant

Fabric scraps for the embellishments

20 inches of extra wide double fold bias tape

1 yard medium weight fusible interfacing

Heat-n-bond Lite

Cut 2 triangle pieces for the pennant. Mine is cut 18"x 32". I will use a 1/2" seam allowance. The finished pennant will be 17" x 31".

Apply the fusible interfacing to the back piece of the pennant fabric. Set aside.

Using the Heat-n-Bond Lite, apply your embellishments to the front piece of pennant fabric.

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Top stitch the embellishments onto the fabric.

This pennant was made for a 5 year-olds baseball themed birthday party so I put a large number 5, the birthday boy's initials, and a few stars.

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(Don't make the same mistake I did! I got excited and forgot to top stitch the embellishments on before I sewed the front and back pieces together. My pennant ended up with visible stitches on the back side. Not the end of the world, but not the nicest either.)
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With right sides facing each other, sew the front and back pieces together, leaving a 4" opening to turn out. Trim corners and turn out. Stitch the bias tape to the short side leaving an inch or so on each end. Top stitch around the pennant.

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Voila! You have yourself a fabulous pennant :)

Bunting

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You will need:

1/4 yard of 4 or 5 different fabrics

Several yards of extra wide double fold bias tape (I used 4 pkgs. = 12 yds.)

Pinking shears

Cardstock for triangle template

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Cut a triangle template from cardstock. My triangles were 8" long and 8" wide.
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Fold each piece of fabric length wise with right sides together. Using the template, trace the triangles onto the wrong side of the fabric. I yielded 16-18 triablges from each piece of fabric.

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Place triangles wrong sides together.

Pin each set of triangles into the fold of the bias tape. I left 1-2 inches in between each set of triangles. Every three yard strand of bias tape (1 pkg.) had 10 triangle sets. I made 4 strands of bunting.
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Top stitch across the length of the bias tape making sure to get each triangle in the bias tape.

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Hang up and behold the delightfulness of the bunting!

Baseball T-shirt

You will need:

T-shirt

Off white fabric (1/4 yard is more than enough)

Red thread

White thread

Heat-n-Bond Lite

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Trace circles onto the fabric. You will need twice the number as you want. My shirt has 5 baseballs, so I traced 10 circles.

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Pin two circles together and using red thread and a zig-zig or similar stitch, top stitch a curve on both sides of each baseball.

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Apply the red stitched balls onto the shirt using the Heat-n-Bond Lite or other lightweight fabric adhesive. Using the white thread, top stitch around each ball.

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Put me in coach! I'm ready to play in my awesome baseball shirt!

Tally Mark Birthday Shirt

You will need:

T-shirt

Fabric scraps

Heat-n-Bond Lite

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Cut 4 strips of fabric about 3-4 inches long and 1 wide. Cut another strip about 5-6 long and 1 inch wide.

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Apply the 4 shorter strips to the shirt using Heat-n-Bond Lite (or other lighhjt weight fabric adhesive). Top stitch each strip to the shirt.

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Apply the longer strip diaganolly over the 4 shorter strips. Top stitch the long strip over the short strips.

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Tally marks rule! Rock it in your new shirt!