A Work In Progress

Hi all my quilty friends.  Many of you were wondering where had I been and what happened to my blog....

I'm still here and haven't gone anywhere.  In the past months, I've been very busy with my denim quilt.  Not so much of having it under my needles or anything like that.  It's more like listening and connecting to it.  

I do believe that quilts can talk.  They will tell you which direction they want to go and what kind of quilting you should do with them.  Last time I told you that I saw my quilt as a Masquerade mask but I now believe that this quilt has gone on a different path.  

My original plan was to have one inch grid background and I was doing just that.  But something wasn't quite right in its place.  I was pretty sure I heard a different tune from the quilt.  This quilt has taken a drastic turn, once again!

I even went to an longarmer whom I had delt with in the past and ask her if she'd be willing to do a custom quilting for me.  I thought this quilt needed something more than what I could give.  We talked and planned for almost 2 hours about feathers, curvy lines and other things for the quilt.  We drew lines on a paper printout of the quilt.  I went home thinking that this new direction was the way to go.  In the following few weeks, I had these uneasy feelings about the plan for this quilt.  I took out the paper that had drawings of the quilting lines for this quilt and really looked at them again.  I did some doodling and tried to mimic the Masquerade mask and stick with the plan.  The more I look at it, the more I didn't like it.  I called my longarmer back and canceled the whole thing.  I apologized and offered to pay for her time meeting with me but she graciously refused and only asked that I sent her picture of the finished quilt.  I agreed.

That was in the middle of May.  Since then I had been paying more attention to the quilt and tried to understand what it's trying to tell me.  During those times, several questions came to mind, for example: what is my style? Why do I make quilt?..etc.   I still don't have answers to all the questions but now I know one thing for sure that I love making quilt.   Just to be in my sewing room and make something makes me very happy! 

Now I have a clear vision for this quilt and spent the last part of June to make it happen.  The quilt is almost done and I will be able to share the pictures and all in a week.  Now I can only show you one of the area that I just finished yesterday.

My dear friends, I wish you all joy and happy days ahead.  

Thanks for visiting.

Margo

In addition to the linky parties on the sidebar, I also link up to:

Slow Sunday Stitching by Kathy's Quilts

Sew & Tell by Melva Loves Scraps

Monday Musings at Songbird Design

To Do Tuesday  hosted by Carol at Quilt Schmilt 

Put Your Foot Down at For the Love of Geese  (Thursday)

Brag About Your Beauties at From Bolt to Beauty

First Projects of 2026

Hi there all my quilty friends.  I took an unexpected long break from sewing and blogging.   It was this long absence that made it so hard to get back to my normal routines.  

Thanks to a few dear quilty friends who contacted me to see how I was doing.  I really appreciate you and was touched beyond measure.  I love this quilting community and the lovely people in it.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart.   💗💓💗 

Now that they had been gifted, I can share the photo.  The first two finished quilts of this year are these 2 baby quilts.  The first one is for a dear friend who just had her first grand baby girl.  She's over the moon for the new little baby.    Another one is for a young friend who had his first baby girl in March.  I finished this quilt sometime ago because of an advance notice.  All I had to do was put a label on. 

Then I lazily moved on to work on the denim quilt I finished (the top) last year.  You can read about it here.  Regarding the name of this quilt, I boiled it down to two names; Surprise! and Masquerade.   I welcome all input, let me know which name you like better.

I started quilting the background first because I knew what I wanted to do for it; I plan to do one inch grid.  The other areas, I'll get to them as I go along.  It's kinda like make it up as I go....LOL.

Until next time.   Hope you all have a great day!!

Margo

In addition to the linky parties on the sidebar, I also link up to:

Slow Sunday Stitching by Kathy's Quilts

Sew & Tell by Melva Loves Scraps

Monday Musings at Songbird Design

To Do Tuesday  hosted by Carol at Quilt Schmilt 

Put Your Foot Down at For the Love of Geese  (Thursday)

Brag About Your Beauties at From Bolt to Beauty

The Last Project of The Year

 I can't believe Christmas is almost here and the year 2025 is almost over.  This year has flown by so quickly.  I heard somewhere that the way down hill is faster.  Am I going that direction?   Hahaha

I decided to put other projects on hold and made this the last project of the year.  It's a baby girl quilt for a my son's college friend.  The new parents are over the moon with their first baby girl.  

I'm really happy with the way it turned out.  I love the way all the fray edges soften up the edges of the shapes on the quilt top.

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year.  May God bless you all with the richest blessings of Health and Happiness, always.

Margo

John3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

In addition to the linky parties on the sidebar, I also link up to:

Slow Sunday Stitching by Kathy's Quilts

Sew & Tell by Melva Loves Scraps

Monday Musings at Songbird Design

To Do Tuesday  hosted by Carol at Quilt Schmilt 

Put Your Foot Down at For the Love of Geese  (Thursday)

Brag About Your Beauties at From Bolt to Beauty