I needed a banner for my booth at craft shows. I designed it to be flexible (sometimes you don't know what the venue will be like and how you'll be able to attach a banner) and easy to pack up without getting all wrinkled up and ugly next time you pull it out.
1. I used 4 sheets of dark brown felt (rectangles 9"x12"). I ironed some pretty sturdy fusible interfacing to the back.
2. I cut the 4 sheets into half-size, yielding 8 letter panels. I only needed 7 of these, one for each letter in my company name: xbohica.
3. I ironed fusible double-sided web to one side of bright pink felt. (Leave the paper on the fusible web for now!)
4. On my computer, using MS Word, I found a font that I liked and printed out each letter (really big!) of xbohica on paper. Then I cut out each of those letters from the paper. This gave me my templates for cutting letters.
4. I traced the letters (from #4 above) on the pink felt. Then I cut out the letters from the pink felt.
5. I removed the paper from the backs of the letters and ironed them onto the 7 brown panels, one letter per panel.
6. I sewed a lime green buttonhole stitch around the edges of each letter.
7. I applied lime green (single fold) bias tape around the edges (sides and bottom) of each of the brown panels.
8. I sewed all of the letter panels onto a long length of (extra wide) lime green bias tape. Make sure you attach the letters in the right order :-)
9. Ta-da. I'm ready to really "represent" at the next craft fair!
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