Pillow Case Projects

I’m working on two new pillow case projects for a dear friend’s daughter. There are two color ways as shown in following pictures. 

Pillow case #1

Pillow case #2

The pillow case #1 is ready to be quilted. Not so much for the case #2. I’ll have to come up with something soon. 

I love small projects like these to give me a break while I’m working on a big project that’s carried over from last year. Do you remember these marbles from last year?  I only had two marbles sewn in the background; the yellow/white marble and the black marble with sheer fabric partially on top.  In the past few days, I couldn't stop moving the other marbles around.  That's when I had to stop and take a break. :-)

I’m trying to finish it but my thoughts keeps slipping and wondering off to something else. I thought I have nailed down the design or the layout for this one but now I’m not so sure. I need more time to work on this one, that’s why I’m glad I’m having a break from it. 

What’s you’re working on right now? Whatever it is, I hope you’re having a marvelous time with it. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Margo

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She’s Finished

Hello everyone.  

The denim quilt is done!  Here’s the picture.

Quilt info.

Name:     She’s a Star

Height:    51.50”

Width:     55.75”

Material: Upcycled denim, painter drop cloth, cotton threads

Batting:   Cotton/polyester

Now onto the other story:

Between July 27th to August 13th, I attended my college’s 50th anniversary celebration of the Math and Science Department in Bangkok, Thailand.  The actual celebration day was on August 1st.  My college's name is King Mongkut's University of Technology, Thonburi.  I am part of the class #1 of the Math Department.  There were 15 graduates that year.  Most of my classmates were there, it was great to be able to go and celebrate with everyone.  Our professor, who's now 86 years old, was the Dean of Mathematics department and also our adviser when we first entered the college.  Our group has constant contact with her through all these years.  We'd gather at her home every time I went back to visit.  We all have this deep love and admiration for her.   She's like the second mother to us.  Amazingly she's still active and sharp.  We all had so much fun talking and laughing every single time we meet and this time was no exception.   We had a lot of fun singing our old college songs.

I've always felt that my life is so full with love and blessings and it has never been more evident than in the past weeks.  I'm so blessed to be surrounded with good people in my life.

I came back in time to finish the facing of the quilt and submitted it to the Quilt National 27.  Wish me luck.

Thanks for visiting.

Love,

Margo

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Favorite Quilt Finish (August 2026) at Quilting Jet Girl 

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

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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

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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.

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The First Marble

In the last few days, I worked on the first inset circle.  This is the most challenging one because I have to line up two seams that are crucial to the look I want to achieve.  

One of the background fabric is sheerer than the others and while I was composting the background layout, I accidentally put it over one marble.  I liked the way the marble looked through the sheer fabric so I kept them the way they were, frayed edge and all.  This is the way the first marble on the quilt looks.

I can't tell you how many times I undid the seams where the overlap is in order to line up the vertical and horizontal seams.

This project progresses slowly but I'm getting there.  

Thanks for visiting. 

Margo

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I'm Putting New Ideas on Fabric

Hi Friends,

I'm back and started sewing again.  Since August, we've had health crisis in our family that required my attention and care.  I decided to put everything on hold and take care of what was needed.  Now the situation has gotten better and it's time for me to get back to my usual activities.  Though, not completely 100%, I'm starting to make some blocks for my new ideas.  

In the past I have made quilts with marbles ideas.  You can see some of them here and here.  Both quilts were for my friends' grandbaby boys.  This new marble quilt is not for baby.  The idea of this quilt is something more meaningful to me.  Here are some of the marbles that I've made so far.

Can you tell I'm having fun?  I love making these marbles.  They are 12.5" in size and I will use the Inset circle technique to put them into the background later.  

It's good to be back to sewing and creating again.  Working with my hands makes me feel good and relax.  It's a wonderful life!!

Margo

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A Quick Update on Baby Quilt 2

 Hi Every One....

I'm very happy to tell you all that the baby girl quilt is done as shown in the pictures below.

At the last minute, I decided to use flannel for borders, batting and backing.  In stead of the normal binding with 2.5" strips of fabric, I finished it with a Faux Rag binding.  I came up with this technique when I wrote my first book: Soft & Cozy Keepsakes - Faux Rag Quilting, published by The AQS in 2016.

For the boy's baby quilt, it turned out that the baby is now just turned three years old.  I decided to make him a bigger quilt so that he and his siblings can snuggle together when they watch TV or something.  The top that I made will be given to my dear friend whom I got the fabric from so that she can finish it the way she likes to and donate it to her favorite charity.   

I still haven't started the quilting on my denim quilt.  We are going on vacation to the Idaho Falls at the end of the month and when we come back, I will start working on it.  Right now I'm pulling some fabric for a new project.  I don't have any design in mind at this point.

  

About a month ago I found out that almost all of the comments on my blogs were from No-reply Bloggers.  Even the comments from those whom I knew and had interacted with before.  I did a little research to find out that, somehow, Blogger changed everyone to a No-Reply Blogger.  I came across Carol Swift from justletmequilt.com.  In her blogs she discussed, more than once, about No-reply Blogger and has a link to how to fix it.  

I also found a blog at xomisse.com where they discussed this issue and have a recommendation on how to fix this problem.

I encourage you, my dear readers, to check these sites.  I really appreciate your visit and your comments and would like to be able to communicate back.  

Have a great weekend.

Margo

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A Quick Update on Baby Quilts

I'm almost done with the girl quilt.  Here's the latest picture.

Instead of connecting each small square blocks of blue and pink by rows and columns, I opted for the 4-patch blocks which measured 8.5".  Refer to the previous blog post for the pictures.  I arranged all small squares on the design wall.  When I'm happy with the arrangement, I then grouped them by 4 to make a 4-patch block.  It's very liberating to me to be able to sew without having to draw a diagonal line or using lot of pins.  The project moves along a lot quicker and less stress.  After trimming the 4-patch blocks to a uniform size of 8.5", connecting them together is a breeze.  Right now I'm auditioning the border and binding fabric.  After that I'll work on the boy quilt.

One secret tip: using a scant 1/4" seam allowance is a big help.  I used it to piece the blue and pink strips together and in piecing the 4-patch blocks.  None of the block had a variant bigger than 1/4" and I'm very happy to live with that.  At the end, the blocks came together beautifully!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great creating time.

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

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Take a Break to Make Baby Quilts

I finished basting the new denim quilt.  This quilt still doesn't have a name, at least at the moment.  I have a name in mind but I'll let it brew in my head for awhile to see if next week I still like it.  LOL I've been thinking about quilting it even before the top was done.  I still have some unsolved issue of quilting in some area of the quilt so I decided to take a break from it to make 2 urgent baby quilts for gifts.  

These two baby gifts are for a boy and a girl.  I hardly used any precuts for my quilts but this one I wanted to use Jelly roll or 2.5" strips.  I had some designs that I wanted to try.  My dear friend let me raid her stash once again for baby fabric.  She introduced me to pattern called Jagged X from Jordan Fabrics.  She showed two finished Jagged X quilts to me and I really liked them.  This pattern is a lot easier than the one I wanted to make.  Of course I went for the easier and faster pattern.  So we came up with blue/orange color theme for the boy and blue/pink for the girl.  Two weeks ago, I would never use blue/orange for boy's quilts, but my friend convinced me.  We picked out a bunch of 2.5" strips and I came home to do the final cuttings according to the pattern.

I checked out the tutorial on Jordan Fabric website for this quilt.  I learned something new; how to connect 2 pieces of fabric with diagonal seam without drawing a line or pinning.  I tried it out and it worked pretty well.  There are some mistakes at the beginning but I got better as I went along.  I used to spend a lot of time drawing a diagonal line before sewing half square triangle blocks to get them exactly perfect.   Now with this technique, I just cut stacks of fabric and start sewing.  It's faster and the results are pretty good. 

All I have to do is line up the upper corner and the bottom corner to the edge of the marking tape as shown in the picture above.  That edge of the marking tape lines up perfectly with the needle.  At first, I used one pin to secure the right corner before I passed the fabrics under the needle.  But then I got better at it and didn't need any pin at all.

I'm sure this technique has been used by many quilters before I discovered it today.  What's amazing to me also is that I can live with the mistakes.  I told myself that if the variant is less than 1/4" seam allowance, I could live with that as shown in the picture below.

The piece on the left is pretty good but not so for the piece on the right.  My former self would take out the seam ripper and start to rip out the seam but I told myself not to do anything.  It was hard!!  When I put the blocks together, the unmatched seams disappeared.  Right now the block finished 8.5".

I made a girl block and a boy block to test out the colors.  I like them both.  In the past I would never consider flower prints for boy quilt.  I let go this time; I can't wait to see the finished quilts.   

Now I have 11 more blocks to make for both quilts.  I must say I really enjoy making these blocks and the new principal I just adopted to my nature of quilt making.  It's truly an eye opening and a refreshing experience for me to be able to sew without pinning and to live with some minor mistakes.

Thank you for visiting and have a great week!

Margo

 

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

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The Adventure in Time top is done and a new evolution

The top of Adventure In Time is done.   I thought I've done it and finally got some resolution to my uncertainty.  It's because I  struggled with this project.  My approach to this project, like many projects in the past, is pure improvisation.  I don't have a final look in mind, ie. I didn't know what I was doing.  😊 🤭

The only thing I knew was that I would use denim again.  I made a piece and put it on the design wall, then the following pieces based on the first piece would emerge.  I made several pieces and put them together.  I would go on until I got the look that was "right".  The struggle was that with this project, I didn't get the look that I LOVED so I went on and on until I got this layout.

I thought, ok, this is it.  I liked what I saw.  While I was editing the picture for a new blog post, I rotated the picture and I saw this.

Wham! I liked it.  This is a new evolution of the Adventure in Time.  It's exciting, whimsical and fun.  It's unlike anything I've made before.  I want to change the name to fit this new look.  I don't know yet what the new name of this piece will be.  I welcome all suggestions.  Leave some comments and let me know which version you like better. Let's have some fun.  My DH said it looks like Gizmo from Gremlins. LOL

To me it looks like a futuristic masquerade.  I wonder who would wear it?

Now its time to make a back for this piece.  

Thanks for visiting with me and have a great day!

Margo

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Work in Progress 6/2/2025

Hello friends:

I'm back after a long absence.  There was a lot going on last month and I just couldn't bring myself to blogging.  When I concentrate on something and have to make decisions, I often retreat into myself and be quiet for awhile.  We need a time and place to disconnect from the world, to think, and we may discover a new path to our solution.  I think we all need that.  I had to make a few decisions about this quilt and one of them was that should I just quit on this and make something else. 

In addition, someone who meant a lot to me passed away.  She was like a mother to me.  I called her my USA mom.  When I first came to this country, I met this couple at church.  They had 6 children; 4 boys and 2 girls.  They took me in as if I was one of theirs.  They were so kind to me and helped me to adjust to this new land and custom.  Dad passed away two years ago and now she's gone too.  The only consolation I have is that they are together again; no more being apart.  

That's why you haven't heard from me for awhile.  After much thoughts, I decided to come back to this quilt and start making some progress.  

From this...

To this....

To this....

Then to this...

I'm quite happy with what I see right now.  I can move forward to finishing the quilt top. I'm glad that I didn't give up on this project.  I've gone over the hurdles that almost caused the whole thing to come to a halt.  I'm getting excited about this project again.  I have ideas about quilting it too.  Can't wait!!

Thanks for stopping by and visiting with me.

Margo

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Work In Progress 05-05-2025

Happy Cinco De Mayo

I'm still tweeting away on the Adventure In Time quilt.  I wanted to share my process in making this quilt with you.  And to show you how it evolved from this to the current stage on my design wall today.

I knew I wanted to make third round piece, so I made this round piece of the same size as the other two.  

The half round one was a mistake so I didn't use it.  I put the round one on the wall and I thought it need to be different size.  So I made this.

I do like it better.  Then I put it on the design wall and this is what it looks like today.

I'm not done, but I like what I have so far.

Working with denim materials is limited in some way.  I'm thankful for my sister-in-law for giving me her old jean pants in many different colors but I limited myself to a few.  I’m using different parts of the pants such as the edge of the pocket and even the ends of the legs.  Can you find them?

Thanks for visiting and have a great time making and creating.

Margo

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

Brag About Your Beauties at From Bolt to Beauty

On My Design Wall This Week

4/20/25

Happy Easter to you all.  

One of my last projects of the year 2024 was the 'Adventure In Time', you can read about it here.  I left it on the design wall all this time while I worked on other things for the holidays and finished my dear friend's quilt here.

When I was ready to work on it, I felt something wasn’t quite right.  I looked and looked at it for many days and finally decided to make some changes, actually, a lot of changes.  

It took a few days to undo most of the stitches.  I made some new pieces and rearranged the whole thing. Sometimes, a project needs a drastic adjustment to make it right.  This is what's on the design wall right now.

I don't know where this piece will end up.  I will spend some more days to work on it. 

At this time of Easter celebration, I would like to share this hymn with you.  I'm so grateful for my Savior, Jesus Christ.  Without him I would be lost. 

The Lord is My Shepherd

1. The Lord is my Shepherd; no want shall I know.

I feed in green pastures; safe-folded I rest.

He leadeth my soul where the still waters flow,

Restores me when wand'ring, redeems when oppressed,

Restores me when wand'ring, redeems when oppressed.

2. Thru the valley and shadow of death though I stray,

Since thou art my Guardian, no evil I fear.

Thy rod shall defend me, thy staff be my stay.

No harm can befall with my comforter near.

No harm can befall with my comforter near.

3. In the midst of affliction my table is spread.

With blessings unmeasured my cup runneth o'er.

With perfume and oil thou anointest my head.

Oh, what shall I ask of thy providence more?

Oh, what shall I ask of thy providence more?

Text: James Montgomery

Music: Thomas Koschat

Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful week.

Margo

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Spring Is Here And The First Finish Of The Year

Spring is finally here.  The birds are singing and the sun is warming up the air all around.  How we enjoy going for walks!  The fragrant in the air is  so rejuvenating.   The garden has been calling me to go outside and I have no reason to say no.  I spent most days working in my vegetable garden and the area around the yard.  I prepared the soils and planted some new seeds.  To be honest, I'd rather spend time in the garden than being indoors.  Thank goodness I don't have a large property.  

Freesia cuttings

With rewards like these, I can be outside all day.

I did manage to finish my late friend's last project.  You can read about it here.   I've done it many times, but finishing someone else's project without a pattern is not easy.  I just took a deep breath, turned on my favorite music and went at it.  This project is different though.  While I was working on this project, I had mental conversations with her.  My thoughts were with her and I found things went along very nicely.  I didn't have to make complicated blocks, the pattern is very easy and I had to make only 2 blocks to complete the quilt top. 

Many good memories flow back to my mind, such as the many lunch dates we had and we would talk about art, many quilt shows that we went to together along with other guild members, how we talked and laughed while we were walking around looking at quilts.  Oh how she disliked beads and glitters on quilts!!   I thoroughly enjoyed the quiet time I had with her while I finished the whole piece. 

When the top was done, I gave it to her favorite longarmer to be quilted, expecting that I would get it back in couple days.   After dropping it off, my husband and I decided to enjoy the rest of that Saturday around that neighborhood.  Only a few hours later, I got a phone call that the quilting was done so we swung by to pick it up on the way home.  It couldn't have happened in a better way.  Now the binding and a hanging sleeve are done and it's ready to be delivered to a new owner.

I love this wonderful world of quilting where I meet so many wonderful people I call friends.  Quilters are nice people.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Margo

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First Sewing of The Year: a Tribute to a Dear Friend

One of my dear friends who was an artist, a quilter and a teacher passed away last month.  She was a great friend and teacher.  She had lived a full life as a mother, a grandmother, a quilter and a teacher.  Her quilts had been accepted to many shows.  So many people had taken her classes and learned from her, me included.  She had wealth of knowledge to share and she did so freely.  I love her.  

I'm honored that the family has asked me to finish her last quilt top in the picture below as I got it.

Some rolls were done already.  I need to make 2 more blocks and finish piecing all the blocks together, which that's what I did last week.  Here's the final layout of the top.

Next will be connecting all rolls together.  I'm planning to add some borders to make the top a bit bigger.

Here's what on my design wall and what I'm working on this week.

Thanks for visiting and have a great week.

Margo

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New Year, New Projects and More

 Happy New Year everyone.

I know it's a little late but I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year right here in my first post of the year.  Originally I was writing you from Bangkok, Thailand where I was vacationing and visiting my family and friends but I didn't finish writing then.  Now that I'm back home again and want to finish what I started.

Last month we celebrated Chinese New Year.   We had so much fun with many of my family who came over to visit.  The small children all got red envelopes with some money in it.  It is considered lucky money to start the new year.  

I did not sew anything at all, but I did get to play with some fabric.  I was able to acquire some linen fabric and here they are in the picture below.  I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them, but we shall see.  There will be a linen modern art quilt in the near future, I'm sure.

I also purchased some pearl cotton thread for some hand sewn and hand quilting projects.  

I will get back to work on the 'Adventure in Time' project.  I've been thinking about quilting it for the past 5 weeks while I was away.  I'm still not sure how I will go about it.  I guess, as the saying goes, I'll cross the bridge when I get there.

In a few days, I'll be going to QuiltCon in Phoenix, Arizona.  My quilt 'Off Kilter' is hanging in the show.   I hope to see a lot of wonderful quilts and quilters there.  Please say hi if you see me around.  

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week.

Margo

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

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

Peacock Party at Wendy’s Quilts and More  (Friday)

Last Project of the year

This year is coming to an end and I'm finishing the last project of the year which is my first t-shirt quilt.  I just got it back from the long armer and here it is.

It looks great.  I think she did a great job quilting it.  I'll finish it in a few days and send it to the new owner.  If you're interested in a tutorial to make this t-shirt quilt, I have made tutorials for it here, here and here.

In the past week, I had a lot of fun making fabric baskets for holidays gifts for friends and family members.  Here are some of them.  

They are reversable and very roomy.  They will be filled with quilted pot holders/hot pads, crochet scrub pads, a big can of hot cocoa mix, hand creams and chocolate candies.

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happiest New Year.  May God bless you all with the richest blessings.  This year has been a challenging one for us but we survived with the grace of God.  I'm so thankful for all of you for being here for me, supporting and encouraging me all the way.  I love you!!

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:

To Do Tuesday  hosted by Carol at Quilt Schmilt 

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

Peacock Party at Wendy’s Quilts and More  (Friday)

Brag About Your Beauties at From Bolt to Beauty