Making My Company Banner

Alphabet Soup!

 I started working the Portland Saturday Market recently. My mother and I have been trying to make due or do things with the least amount of expense. We are working on getting our displays and tent displays together. We decided to make our own banner by embroidering each letter and sewing it to canvas. We thought this would be the cheapest way for us to get a company name banner. We have the thread and we have the canvas all we need to do is the work.

Each Letter Stitched Out.

I sat down one night and started playing with Fonts and seeing which ones I would want to use for my banner. I started making my letters one by one. Each letter would have to be stitched out on the embroidery machine one at a time. Each letter took anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour to embroidery. It took me 4 days to complete the embroidery . Because I stitched them out with washable stabilizer I needed to soak the letters for 24 hours, changing the water every few hours during the day and then continued soaking the remainder of the night. After soaking I cut the fabric from around each letter.

Plain Black Background Fabric

Once I completed the letters I moved on to getting the background fabric finished. I hemmed the sides and made drawstring facings in the top and bottom to run rope through the banner so I could hang it up in the tent. 

After I finished the background piece of the banner I laid out the letters for spacing and placing. Once that is complete I attached the letters to the background fabric. We used glue to attached the letters. Gluing the letters on was easier then sewing them on.

Letters are glued on and drying

This is the completed banner displaying the company name.

Hanging in the tent

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