Tuesday 27 September 2011

Flying colours

Today was a big day in our household! I don't know if I've ever mentioned that we have been home educating Jess for the past year. We found the education system to be too inflexible for Jess' health issues so we took the decision to go it alone. Frankly, it was one of the best decisions we have ever made, I actually wish we'd done it sooner!! Today we had our first annual inspection visit from the Local Authority Specialist Teacher for Elective Home Education (now there's a mouthful!). I'm happy to report that we passed with flying colours so we're good to go for another year! Woohoo, go us! I never imagined that we'd find ourselves in this position but actually it is quite liberating. So, to celebrate today's success I thought I'd show you some finished goodies :) Here's the Authentic friends cushion all finished up and ready for Jess.
I backed this with a print from Ikea that I had already used to make a floor cushion for Jess.
Today was also momentous in the fact that I finished the behemoth that is The Half Time Quilt!! I have been totally dreading having to quilt this monster since finding out it wasn't good enough in the jelly roll competition. All I can say is thank goodness for fusible batting!!
I did my usual straight line quilting, well face it there was no way I was free-motion quilting this 6 foot square monster!
I used some leftover strips from the It's a Hoot jelly roll I used in the quilt for the binding. I absolutely love how it's finished up and will now be hoping that it survives it's first pass through the washing machine!
Catch you soon x

9 comments:

  1. Congratulations on passing your inspection! I love the cushion - the centre cross and hand quilting is a wonderful idea! Well done for getting Half Time finished, it looks great on the bed!

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  2. Triple congratulations - good news, great cushion and lovely huge quilt!

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  3. Great news! Cushion and quilt are looking fab too, hope quilt goes thru wash no problems :-)

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  4. Great news, your cushion looks fab and that quilt is gorgeous! I blogged about the lovely cushion you made me today and am about to Pay it Forward too. Thanks again x

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  5. Good for you! Of course you passed! All of your projects look great, but I really love the pillow.

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  6. Congrats!! It must be a relief to pass the inspection and what a great quilt!! Love it!!

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  7. Both the pillow and the quilt are lovely! And congrats on your good news!

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  8. well done on the inspection: I didn't realise that you got inspected! Cushion and quilt look fantastic

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  9. Congrats on inspection. Cushion and quilt both look great

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