DIY garland of flags

A garland of flags will ideally fit into any holiday, as it is universal. You can decorate it with any weekdays, birthdays, other holidays. And most importantly - a garland of flags with your own hands is very simple and cheap. The right skill, mixing colors and other factors creates a great atmosphere in your home. Try to make such a decor, you will definitely not regret it. Below, we will consider the manufacturing methods and advantages of such jewelry.

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Benefits:

1. Financial gain. Paper is inexpensive, and a large stack of paper can produce a huge amount of fakes. If you take balls as an alternative, they cost much more.
2. As mentioned above, one of their advantages is versatility. Flags are definitely suitable for celebrating a birthday, as well as for corporate parties. Compare, for example, balloons of thread, they are not suitable for all corporate parties and will not be appropriate for an elderly person’s birthday.
3. Ability to use in large-scale events. If you have the ability to make such a product, you can decorate any event, but at least a wedding for a thousand people, they will not eat up and look monotonous if you perform high-quality and conscientious work.
4. The speed of production depends not only on the amount of work. Perhaps you already have the prepared flags, you can make a garland in a few minutes without much effort. For example, again, there will be balls, they cannot be bought in the evening, and you can take and print the flags.
5. The ability to quickly change them. If something went wrong, then you can quickly and seamlessly replace them.

Important! In addition to all this, in small children, and indeed in all, the skill of needlework develops during manufacturing, which also cannot be a bad result.

You can use garlands from flags with your own hands absolutely everywhere - an apartment, motor transport, railway transport. A correct look at this irreplaceable thing will make the holiday definitely brighter and more fun.

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Material

How to sew a garland of flags? First you need to decide on the materials for work:

• Paper. Often, heavy paper or laminated material is taken for such purposes. The latter, in turn, perfectly resists the effects of moisture, as well as precipitation, as a result - you can quite use the garland on the street.
• Fabric - patchwork fabric can be washed and repeatedly used, which also can not but rejoice.
• The flag ribbon is probably the best option, because it has a braid with ready-made flags of various shapes, colors, with inscriptions or pictures, with or without denticles. This also can not but rejoice.

Important! There are also many minor elements, but the main ones were listed here. By manipulating various colors, patterns, shapes, you can create unusual bundles of shades and patterns, resulting in beautiful jewelry for all purposes in which you can only use them. Usually, thick paper or laminated material is used for this.

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Types of flag garlands

Depending on your purpose of use, the method of their manufacture will also change. Before you make a garland of flags with your own hands for your birthday, decide where it will hang and how.

The following types are distinguished:

• Sewed - in the manufacture of flags are sewn to the braid.You can sew tightly to each other, then you will not see their basics. Get a solid line of flags. Using a sewing machine will quickly make several such rows.
• With holes. Flags of these types have holes - one or two, through which a fishing line, cord or wire is passed.
• On the grommets. This is probably the most durable option in terms of durability. Holes in the flags are fixed with grommets - these are such special bushings, they can be plastic or metal. They also thread bases.

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Training

Before you start making flags, we will consider what you need to have at hand and what blanks will be needed:

• Flags - you can either buy them or prepare them yourself. For example, make templates and print, then - using stencils, you can make the number of flags you need.

Important! The shape of your flags does not have to be habitually triangular - the shape of the heart will only look more original.

• For flags made of fabrics, you will need a template with which you will make a pattern. Of the tools you will need a sewing needle and thread.
• The basis. As mentioned above, the basis will be fishing line or wire, tape, cord or braid and any other improvised material of the same plan.

So, having discussed everything that was necessary, we go directly to the manufacture itself, so that the garland of flags with our own hands will turn out bright, colorful and appropriate at your celebration.

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Garland making

Oddly enough, but even such a simple interior decoration has several ways to create. Consider them.

Method 1:

1. Take your prepared flags, size - A5 format, as it is optimal for use in everyday life.
2. There are two ways to form a garland. The first is to stick the blanks onto paper tape. Or to make a high-quality and reliable foundation, which will take not so much time, but nothing will happen to them.
3. Next, string your figures with a needle on a thread or fishing line, or the upper edge is bent and stitched. In the second case, the line is threaded through the hole formed along the upper edge of the flag.

Method 2:

This method is the use of pre-prepared material. This means that you do not have to bother and make blanks. Garlands are sold with holes already made complete with any base - you just have to collect and place the garland.

Important! However, this option will be financially more expensive than the first. In addition, you can’t always find what you like, but to do something with your own hands is nice, because it will turn out the way you see.

Let's take another example.

Method 3

For a good example, we wish Katya a happy birthday:

• We get such numbers Katyusha - 6 flags, Happy Birthday - 16 flags. We conclude that a total of 22 flags are needed, you can add a couple more to make it more magnificent.

Important! One A4 sheet gives us 6 flags, take 24 flags and divide by 6, so we need 4 A4 sheets.

• Next step. We cut the triangles in this way: put the sheet vertically, make two marks at the top at a distance of 10 and 20 cm from the corner, we also act from the bottom. Connect the marks in straight lines. Do the same thing, only in a different direction. Next, connect the place of the crosshairs of lines.
• The third stage. We cut out our rounds in which letters were printed. Glue well, efficiently and without lumps.
• We make holes, arrange them in the right order, and begin to decorate as your heart desires.
• Now we string our flags on any base, divide the letters so that at the ends of the base there is the same distance.

That's it, so easily and simply do garlands with your own hands!

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Here were considered the basic principles, advantages, types of garlands. A garland is an indispensable part of the celebration, perhaps it seems to you that this is not so, but believe everything that way.A certain amount of time and a small amount of effort will arrange a real holiday for you - children, adults, seniors, everyone will be absolutely surprised at your design and approach. Everything makes it very simple and inexpensive, so be sure to try to make such a craft.