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How to Make a Graduation Banner

Create a unique and personalized graduation banner out of fabric. You can easily customize this banner with your child’s school colors and graduation year.

Girls holding colorful pennant outside

My sister-in-law is the photographer for her daughter’s Field Hockey team. She came with a great idea to make a banner with “Class of 2012” to use for photos of the seniors this year.

She enlisted my help to make the banner, and I was happy to help!  I love a good project, and she had an awesome idea. I think this would also be great to use to decorate for a graduation party.

The banner was simple, I just used various blue fabrics, cut them to 10″x10″ then into triangles using my ruler and pinking blade for my rotary cutter.

How to Make the Banner

Supplies Needed

  • 20 10″ x 10″ Squares of Fabric in a variety of prints (this would be a great way to use a 10″ precut stack!)
  • Pinking Blade for Rotary Cutter
  • Quilt Ruler
  • Extra Wide Double Fold Bias Tape
  • Felt
  • Cricut Machine
  • Paper Backed Fusible Web

The banner is double-sided – I put my niece’s name on the other side so that she could use it later to decorate her dorm room. Of course, you can just leave the other side blank.

Cutting Directions

Find the center of the bottom of each of the 10″ squares and mark it with a fabric safe pen.

Place two 10″ squares together, wrong sides facing. (You need to keep them paired up as you cut and sew).

Place your quilt ruler so that it goes from the bottom center to the upper corner and cut it with the rotary cutter.

Repeat this time with the ruler towards the other upper corner.

quilt ruler and fabric

Sew each pair of cut triangles together along the pinked edges with a 1/4″ seam allowance.

Add the Applique

Iron the paper-backed fusible web onto the wrong side of the felt to be used for the lettering and circle.

Using a Cricut machine cut out from felt your lettering and 10 felt circles (mine are scalloped and 3″ across, you can find a free scalloped circle in Cricut Design Space).

Assembly Steps

Using pins and a sewing machine, sew the tops of the triangles into the bias tape. I used Traci’s tutorial for this step.

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