Banners

Banners for babies:

And banners for weddings:

Adorable wedding photo by Raya Photography

I started out making them plain and square

which I like well enough.

Then I started adding random scraps to them

like vintage seam tape, lace, ric-rac and dingle-balls.

Dingle-balls?

Is that my own invented word?

Or am I just a country bumkin that continues to make up my own vocabulary?

My children choke and laugh whenever I say it,

then I am reminded that it's not a real word at all,

for I say it so confidently

like it exists.

I googled it and it doesn't.

Well!

What else is one to call them?

They are dingle-balls.

I have a whole pile of them.

The dingle-ball giver used them 'back in the day'

to make her pants longer

for she is tall.

I picture her tall and slim

wearing moccasins and jeans

with blond hair in long braided pigtails

tied with leather barrettes.

Well, enough of my dingle-ball bunny trail! I put these banners in my Etsy shop so they could be special ordered for any occasion. Or you can pull out some scraps and make your own! This makes a great personalized gift, and can be a good project for young sewers. Uhh hemm. Christmas is coming.... And if you have any creative ideas for using up an enormously large roll of brown and creme dingle-balls please do let me know!