Banners Away!

For James' Apple birthday (he got a new mac laptop) I decorated the house a la apple inspiration. This mostly involved about 20 pounds of granny smith apples in stacks and rows around the ground floor of the house. But I also threw this set of banners together at the last minute before guests arrived. And we all who live in the house liked it so much, it's still up. I purchased about 1 1/2 yards of fabric total for about 4$ and a spool of dollar ribbon and had way more fabric than I needed. In fact we could have festooned the whole house if I'd kept going, not just the dining room. The banner itself is far from perfect--I just ran the serger along the top edge of each triangle and along the edge of the ribbon. I had originally planned to surge all three edges of each triangle but time and guests in town kept it simple and the rough edges aren't noticeable. A blanket trim with the two folds might have made it smoother and more finished looking but that would have required my sewing machine work, which it doesn't. I don't think anyone has expectations when it comes to banners anyways.
Now I'm thinking about making a banner for our back deck with oilcloth so that it's weather proof and maybe with varying sizes of rectangles instead of triangles. We'll see.