Summer Bunting

Since changing my sitting room decoration from Winter to Spring. I was missing the snowflake bunting across the fireplace.

So I decided I ought to finish off the seaside summer bunting.

You may remember that, when I was making the coasters for Eleonora of Coastal Crochet’s Coasters CAL,

that I said that I had thought of turning them into bunting and had made a start on an extra motif.

Now, I think that I had had it in mind to make four of these and had already started on making some more motifs for them. I had made an ammonite and was working on a fishing net.

Four triangles would be too much to fit the space which meant I only needed to make one more, so I abandoned the net and used the yarn to edge the triangle.

Normally with bunting I attach the pieces as I create the cord to connect them but this time I made a two strand crochet chain and sewed the pieces on afterwards, so I could redesign in future if I wanted to.

So here it is all finished and in place.
This is how I made the triangles, should you wish to try something similar.

No need to cut the yarn till the end.

I started with 24 chain in blue and made a (UK) dc in the second chain from the hook and each chain to the end. (Through back of chain.)

The I turned the work, 1ch miss a stitch, dc in each to the end. This is the basic row

Changed to white on the last stitch then 1ch miss a stitch, dc in each to the end. Repeated this for another row of white.

Then I switched back to blue for two rows dropping the white, and alternated till the last row was one white stitch.

Then I edged the triangle with dcs in a contrasting colour. One dc to each row and an extra couple for the corners.