Flag Theory Into Practice

A few weeks ago, I was at a party near Montpelier, Vermont.  When we arrived, my hosts -- people whose awesomeness can be best illustrated by the fact that they are regular IAT readers -- told me that they were kind of hoping for a flag, and had laid in nylon and grommets for the purpose.

This was clearly going to be my kind of party.  That there turned out to be lots of playing with fire was just icing on the cake.

The commission was for a ten-sided yellow star on a field of white.  Ten-sided stars are tricky, but after a hour or so of fussing with cardboard, pencil, scissors, and a ruler, fielding various suggestions from bemused onlookers, I had an adequate shape ready for some crude but hopefully more or less effective applique.  I set up the house sewing machine in a workshop, where somebody named Terri Wise captured my enthusiasm for the project.

I was pretty pleased with the final product, I'll tell you what.  I bet it could hold its own in a fair flag tournament.

The only thing is, the wind never really picked up.  I bet when it really got flying it looked sharp against the Vermont foliage.