Jubilee!

My daughter had to make some flags for the end of half term to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.  She was asked to make them A4 size and out of material so that the school could sew them onto bunting tape.

I said keep things simple, but she ignored me 🙂 and made a Union Jack flag all by herself out of felt.  At 7.30am the next morning, the day they needed to be handed in to school, she asked to make the flag I had suggested!!  With very little time I helped her put it together and she did all the sewing on her machine.  This was a blue patterned piece of A4 poly cotton fabric, which we simply cut a little larger than A4 and hemmed around the edges.  I then cut out a silhouette of the Queens head from some white cotton fabric and attached it with double-sided Bondaweb, it has adhesion on both sides so is great for applique.  She then stitched around it on the sewing machine to help keep it in place.

We have also had to make cakes for a ‘Bake Off’ at school and of course made our cakes from the ‘Chocolate Brownie’ recipe that you can find in a previous post, but we put them in cake cases this time.  My daughter iced on a bunting design and added some Jubilee bits and pieces to her cake board.  Cakes fit for a Queen! 🙂

I wonder if anyone else has had to create things for school and the Jubilee?  How will you be celebrating?

Enjoy! x