Our daughter plays eats, sleeps and breathes soccer. She is lucky to play with a great group of girls and I have been lucky to have coached them in the past. We heart soccer! They’ve played in several tournaments where they exchange patches with the opposing team after each match. I love this tradition and I think it helps develop sportsmanship and collecting them makes her very proud. She’s started a nice small collection of these patches and I wasn’t sure what to do with all of them. I thought about putting them on her backpack or her sweatshirt but these are things that she’ll out grow or they’ll soon be worn out and I didn’t want to see the patches go to waste. So I decided to make her a patch banner. I remember having something similar when I was young and I loved mine. I might give this to her as a Christmas present so sssshhhhh if you happen to see her!
Here are the materials and steps to make your own patch banner:
MATERIALS:
Pick the size you want for your banner and get felt a little larger {I bought 1/2 yard off a fabric bolt so it was over 70″ long and 18″ wide}
wooden dowel about 1-2″ wider than the width of the felt
glue gun or fabric glue
string or twine
scissors
ribbon {if wanted}
patches
STEPS:
1. Cut felt to size – mine is 17″ wide x 53″ long (allow about an extra 3″ in the length to wrap the felt around the dowel} so my finished size is 17″ x 50″.
2. Fold the felt in half so left edge meets right. Cut a triangle towards the center about 6″ up.
3. Turn the felt over so back side is up. Put the dowel about 2″ down from top and fold the felt over the dowel and glue it down. Let dry.
4. If you want, you can add a decorative band of ribbon. Just glue in place and wrap around to the back a give the ends a finished look.
5. Attach the string to either ends of the dowel and attach the patches {I added pins too}. I cheated and attached the patches with hot glue.
7. Hang and admire!
I made my daughter’s banner really long so she’ll have lots of room for more patches. And I get to watch like hundreds of more soccer games. Who am I kidding, I don’t think I’ll be able to hold on to this until Christmas!
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