When the second request for birthday banners for our local care facility was put out at the September Guild meeting I felt I should try to put something together. I couldn’t find a pattern to follow but I did find a photo on the web that I thought I could turn into something.

I knew that I had a paper-pieced cupcake from Craftsy and one of my books had an alphabet template in it. I put those two pieces together and then had to come up with a bottom portion that would include space for a photo. Pinwheels are a favourite of mine so I included some of them.

I had one disaster early on when I tried to stitch the photo sleeve on; I thought I could cover the sleeve and not have the iron melt it but no such luck! The sleeve turned out to be the very last thing I did on the piece.