Part 2 of Build your own portfolio by Adria Good

I enrolled for this on Saturday. 18 September, got my parrot chewed sheet loaded and while hubby went to play golf on Sunday morning, I had the laundry folded and ironing done before 6 am.  Then I just had to replace the bedding in the guest rooms after having the grandkids over last weekend.  With all my chores done, breakfast and getting dressed, I parked myself behind the computer to start this course.

First up was to print the PDF files on every motif and place these in a flip file to allow me to trace over these with a whiteboard marker as practice on paper while watching the instructional video before heading to the machine.

I had several attempts at the Ribbon design and finally settled for this one to become part of my portfolio

Monday started with cleaning house first and then I went on to the second motif called Bubbles.  This came rather natural to me as we’ve done the loops in part 1 of this course and I have tried my hand at bubbles on several quilts.

Then the Courier Guy stopped and delivered a quilt from out of town and when this is finished it will be shipped to a granddaughter all the way in Australia.  Here and then my course was interrupted as I prefer to do customer quilts as soon as possible.

Now, this was an interesting quilt made up of only sashing’s, a border and one large double batted applique flower.  What to do where?  I decided on different motifs for the different fabric colours as I got clear instructions from the quilter to “jazz it up”.  I ended up with 14 different motifs and I should do something like this for myself.  I often forget about a motif totally until I change bedding and see what I’ve done on a previous (older) quilt.

I still have 2 more customers quilts before I can continue with my course.  I do love these!