Welcome to Mountaintop Quilting Studio

This is where you find me exploring a variety of creative adventures mostly about but not limited to quilting. I'm a firm believer that one increases their creativity by being open to and playing with a variety of cretative endeavors ... at least that my excuse for today. Enjoy your sourjourn through my studio playroom. May you find encouragement and inspiration, and on occassion, a little pin-prick that may be thought-provoking or spark your imagination. Thank you for stopping by.

Brenda finished this quilt recently as a gift for her grandson. She wanted me to use a pattern with stars and loops. Nearly every designer has a pattern using a combination of circles or loops and stars in their catalog, and in fact, I own most of them. However, I couldn't find one that was balanced that fit my style of quilting in the way the patterns are balanced in terms of spacing and size. I also wanted a more circular line design for my loops.

It was time to dust off the mouse and add my voice to all the stars and loops patterns available to the quilters of the world. This pattern is designed at about a 10" square making the stars ranging in size between one and two inches. Most of the time my pattern set up ends up with two 9" rows making the stitch-out time pass quite quickly as well as, keeping the stars and circles just the right size - not too big and not too small.

Have fun changing this pattern around to fit your design needs - rotate four times at 90 degrees to form a new block or wrap it around the corner to make a "star-studded" border.

And the GOOD NEWS ... if you're reading this blog post you will find this pattern offered as a freebie! Scroll down and choose the correct format for your machine ...

STATLER: 1375 LOOPY STARS        INTELLIQUILTER: 1375 IQP LOOPY STARS

Enjoy the freebie. Use it on a soldier quilt. Leave some love if you enjoy the freebies you find and use from Mountaintop Quilting.

Layout elements from various collections found at Scrap Girls. 

Comments

• Hey Kay - Looking for pumpkins and ran across this freebie! Thank you!! Love the digital scrapbook pages too. Am so trying to get started on that - IN MY SPARE TIME! See you soon! Julie
  by Julie Lawson on 15 July 2009 at 9:44 p.m.