Sweet Valley Flags

Mount Beauty celebrated its second Sweet Valley Sounds music festival on February 9th and we were very happy to be a part of it (alongside many friends). As part of the preparations there was a call to quite a few sewers (sew-ers) to sew flags to be hung up around the area marked for the festival. So, despite the late notice and busy start to the school year, a few of us got together to catch up on our holidays apart and to sew, sew, sew like we never have before (okay, an exaggeration, but it was fun working together!).In the end, using materials donated to the cause, we sewed approximately 45m of retro-themed flags - all overlocked, doubled-sided and held together with hand-made bias tape in matching colours. It was an effort of which we are all proud - and although they turned out to be the best made flags at the festival, we'll do it again if more are needed for next year.In fact, they were so well made that we've heard that they may be used for someone's upcoming birthday too - perhaps they'll become the 'town flags'? (Perhaps we should make some more and charge money to hire them out????).