Not so secret santa advent calendar bunting

We are having secret Santa at our work Christmas do, with a budget on what to spend I decided to make most of the present. I had been looking at lots of Christmas bunting on pinterest and used various ones as my inspiration.

I cut the flags so that they were 6 1/2 inches long when cut (the width of my ruler) and the pockets were 4 inches long.

On my first attempt I cut all the triangles out and then tried to hem the cream pocket triangles but this proved too tricky as the fabric was too small for me to feed it into the roll hem foot so I started again and hemmed my strip of fabric and then cut it. I also used the pearl pens to add the numbers, much better to do it before stitching it as I did make a bit of a bloop on one so thankfully had a spare and didn't have to do any unpicking.

It was easy to put together with layering the 3 pieces of fabric stitching, trimming and then turning the right way out. I pressed them at this point to get them flat (on the wrong side so I didn't melt the numbers). I trimmed the top and added the binding. I used shop bought bias binding that I had in my stash and ironed it in half before slipping the flags in. I used a simple running stitch to hold it together.

Back of flags, alternate green and red

With sweets inside

Apart from my numbering I was rather pleased with the way it turned out. I think I just about kept to my £10 budget, including a few sweets - let's hope the receiver likes home made pressies.