Cindy Piccoli, host of HGTV's Decorating With Style, turns a teenager's everyday room into a team-rally room by creating pennant cornice toppers for the windows that reflect favorite school and team colors and logos. Tie pennants on a curtain rod to make a vertical pennant window topper, or attach felt pennants to a curtain rod with Velcro® to make a horizontal pennant topper. Vertical Pennant Window Topper Materials:
Spring-tension curtain rod
Sports pennants or felt cut in pennant shapes
Hand-held paper punch
Ribbon
- Place the curtain rod on a work surface, and arrange the pennants vertically from the rod to determine the number needed. Position the pennants as desired.
- When you're satisfied with the placement, punch three holes along the top edge of each pennant. Overlap the holes if desired so the pennants overlap.
- Run decorative ribbon through the holes, and string pennants along the rod, tying to secure them.
Customize the pennants by cutting long triangles of colored felt in team or school colors and hanging them as described above. Horizontal Pennant Topper Materials:
Flat curtain rod
Measuring tape
Pennants or felt cut in long triangle shapes
Sticky Back Velcro strips
See-through ruler or straightedge and pencil
Scissors or rotary cutter
Buttons, team logo patches and other embellishments
Sticky-Back Velcro tabs
- Measure the window width to determine the size and number of horizontally placed pennants needed to cover the rod.
- To make your own pennants, cut felt in pennant shapes, using a see-through ruler and rotary cutter (figure A) -- or draw a line and cut with scissors.
- Attach the bumpy side of a strip of Sticky-Back Velcro along the length of the rod. Arrange the felt pennants in place along the Velcro strip. Velcro comes in two-sided strips, but only one side is needed for this project. The felt will stick to the Velcro without the addition of the second piece.
- Embellish the pennants with buttons, team logo patches, beading, braiding or tassels if desired, using Velcro tabs to attach them (figure B).
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