Cutter Quilt Project: a Farmhouse Style Fall Bunting

I love a good quick project and I have one of those for you today. It’s a cutter quilt project: a farmhouse style fall bunting that you can whip up in no time at all.

It appeared in Farmhouse Style magazine last fall (photos at the end), an ongoing collaboration that I really enjoy.

Materials to Create a Farmhouse Style Bunting

To create a farmhouse style bunting, start with an old “cutter” quilt, that is, a quilt that is in pretty rough shape and cannot be repaired.

Why cut up a perfectly good quilt when in actual fact, there are loads of worn out antique quilts just waiting to be repurposed?

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Materials:

• Cutter quilt (check Etsy & eBay)
• Pattern for each pennant (see below or find it in the Member Library under Project Tutorials)
• Glue gun
• Glue sticks
• Off-white 3/8″ Seam binding

How to Make a Farmhouse Bunting from a Cutter Quilt

As it turns out, the pattern on the cutter quilt I used is called “maple leaf.” Perfect for a fall bunting right?? You can just make out the shape in some of the pennants in this photo.

Here are the super simple directions for making this bunting:

• Step 1: Cut the pennant pattern and pin to cutter quilt. 
• Step 2: Cut out as many pennants as you want for your bunting (I cut 12).
• Step 3: Lay out your pennants and apply a line of hot glue along the top, lay down the seam binding, and pat lightly to secure (one pennant at a time). Be sure to leave some loose seam binding on each end for hanging.

It’s that simple! I love to have bunting hanging in my house, whether it’s on a French door in our downstairs hallway or draped across the fireplace mantel in the living room.

Keep in mind that colorful bunting can really add an extra “something” to your antique or market booth, and as an added bonus, it sells really well.

You may be concerned that I haven’t finished the edges of my pennants. While this would certainly make it look more professional and make it more durable, the time it would take to accomplish this is too much in my mind.

While I definitely want the projects that I make for resale to be attractive, I especially want them to be quick and easy. This is one of those!

Completed Cutter Quilt Project: A Farmhouse Style Fall Bunting

Here you see the banner hung on the antique French door I mentioned.

With a white berry wreath in the center and the handmade “Amazing Grace” sign on top, it created just the farmhouse look I was after.

Simple, but warm and welcoming, too.

Cutter Quilt Alternatives

If you really want to make a bunting but don’t happen to have an old tattered quilt on hand, here are some alterative materials you can use:

• Thrifted wool sweater
• Old jeans (denim)
• Flannel shirt
• Music paper
• Grain sack jute
• Cereal box cardboard
• Doilies
• Hankies

Farmhouse Style Magazine 

I feel so blessed to create content for a quality magazine like Country Sampler’s Farmhouse Style. Issued with an aesthetically pleasing matte finish cover, it always has so many fresh, new ideas to try.

If you’d like to get the magazine right in your mailbox, you can buy this issue (fall 2019) (I have four projects inside) or save money and buy a full subscription (4 issues/year). Naturally, I bought a subscription for each of my parents 🙂

Other posts you’d enjoy: Denim bunting, Sweater bunting, Flannel shirt bunting