Daisy print on point squares

Now what a coincidence, the quilter who brought her quilt to me on Wednesday, selected daisies to be quilted on her quilt as and edge to edge and then I received this quilt with actual daisies printed on the fabric.  Luckily this quilter settled for the cha-cha-cha design combined with loops.

We went to my son-in-law’s birthday barbeque yesterday evening but I got this finished before the time.  He only has his birthday today but they are going away for the weekend and we were all invited yesterday.

Now I guess I can continue to focus on part 2 of Adria Goods' course.

Another disappearing 9-patch

I do believe this is the fourth of this kind I’ve quilted and only one was custom work, the rest edge to edge. Whatever the case, it is always interesting to see different people’s take on the same pattern.  I do like this one.

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!

Woodland Critters

Working on this quilt I couldn’t help thinking about the pet sadness I recently had in my little circle.  After we had to put our Border Collie to sleep on 10 August which was a Tuesday, my Sis phoned the Sunday to inform me, they had to do the same with their Great Dane and then this week Tuesday a friend arrived just after having put her 16-year-old cat to sleep and on Friday another quilter friend phoned to say she was at the vet, preparing to do the kind thing.  Not easy on anyone and I honestly hope 4 is now enough.

I’ve received a nice treat from a quilt customer when complaining about how bad my hands are taking all the detergents after starting to do the cleaning myself and when she came to fetch her quilt, she gave me the most divine hand and nail cream.  I do love my Aqueous cream but some brands are so fatty and I love to start quilting after the cleaning has been done but need some lotion on my dry hands and this gift is the best.  Nothing like an unexpected surprise.

I got this quilt late Friday, got it loaded and planned to start early morning.  However, after breakfast, getting dressed and hubby walking the dogs, we parked ourselves behind the TV (as pensioners should) and watched our recorded final episode of Survivor South Africa.   I only got to this much later.

There were these tiny dragonflies on the backing and I did free-motion loops and leaves but popped in the occasional dragonfly.

Good news for this morning is that I enrolled in my next course by Adria Good and is ready to get started.  Hubby will be playing golf tomorrow morning, so good time to concentrate on what I should be doing.

Blocks in blue

Suddenly it is winter again over in South Africa and I am not impressed.  Along with the cold we have annoying winds and I was so impressed with my clean house, all done by myself, and then yesterday dropped white fabric in the passage and as I picked it up, it was full of brown sandy dust.  Depressing to say the least.  I’ve been washing floors in my dreams last night.  When I got up this morning, while still dark, I decided to clean the floors again, not that it will help much as the wind has not yet subsided.

I received this blocks-in-blue quilt yesterday morning with a request for edge-to-edge quilting and was able to finish it the same day.  Not having to cook suppers, these are still delivered, fully cooked, to our door, helps a lot.