Happy Birtday Banner

(Note: camera batteries are on my shopping list. Phone pictures follow. Proceed with caution.)

I've been wanting to make a fabric birthday banner for about a year now (since Jeremy's birthday last year, I think).  This year I was bound and determined to do it. I've gone back and forth and up and down on just what I wanted it to look like, however. There are scads of tutorials out there, but most of them are of the triangle variety (like this). A few are squared. Most are appliqued. And well, meh, I just wasn't in the mood to applique. Or iron on.  Not that I think I went with much of a simpler route (although, maybe, I don't know), but it is a bit more original and not as big (which was another goal). It also lends itself to adjustments (thank goodness!) such as adding a name or a different event all together or, heck, the whole alphabet to be strung up in a play room someday. Yes, I think that last one is a definite possibility.

So without further ado, here is the official Christiansen Birthday Banner of 2010. (ps pretend you see a beautiful plate of cupcakes on the table below the banner all festive-like)

(Um, yes, I do realize it says "Birtday" instead of "Birthday." It did, for the record, take me a full 6 hours of it hanging on my wall before I noticed, however)

Two little button holes in each letter make the whole thing just about as versitle as it gets. (Thus an H will be added to Birtday shortly).

Next up: a valentine's banner of the same variety with lots of reds and pinks and hearts. Happy!