Decorate your Bookmobile or library with Book Banners!

I have started making banners out of tatty old books.  I use these to decorate the bookmobile, but you could use them for library displays or bulletin boards.

Here are the basics:

Rip the pages out of a damaged, but otherwise desirable book.

Measure the center of the bottom of the page and mark it with a little pencil marking.

Use a big paper cutter and go from the upper outside edges to your little mark at the bottom of the page.  You can cut about three or four pages at each chop.

Make your pile of triangles and put them in either a narrative or attractive order.  Some pages will be better than others!  I did not use the big tree page seen here, but used the reverse side instead.

Get some seam binding and your sewing machine.  I purchase seam binding at tag sales where it is about 25 cents a packet.  It's ten times that amount at fabric stores.  You can't be picky about your colors or widths.

Start sewing a tail of the binding with the 'opening' on the outside of your machine, like so:

Insert the triangles as you go, like so:

leave an inch or two between triangles.

You could add embellishments, such as little pumpkins or pom-poms.

Voila!  Here is the finished product:

And a different bird banner hanging in the bookmobile:

Yay!  Have fun making your own quick and easy pennant decorations!