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.

• Have you gotten your copy of the September issue of American Quilter?
• Did you see page 68?
• Did you happen to notice the name of the designer for Dragonfly Blossoms? You're right if you guessed my name.

It was a long time in coming but finally the pattern made it to publication. The piecing techniques follow the same process as outlined in my book Curves That Connect. Minimal pinning and use of the stietto to help in matching the curved edges of the patches make this difficult looking patchwork as easy as pie! You can see detail photo and written instruction on page 72.

When you take a second look at the cutting and piecing instructions for the pattern you will notice that it works very well as a technique sampler as you explore or refine your piecing skills. Full scale templates are included with the pattern. I like to use the extra thick template plastic when making templates for patchwork patterns. Many times I will cut two of the same template piece out the plastic and stick them together with strategically placed double sided sticky tape to make the template just a little more sturdy. I will also use the smallest rotary cutter (18mm) because the blade is so small I would have to work really really hard to shave off part of my template.

The pattern also includes photos of possible quilting designs to be used once the top is pieced. I took advanted of the secondary designs created from the patchwork to guide in the quilting design process helping to to create a look similar to a cathedral window.

You have seen this collection in my catalog ...

 1163 Gossamer Wings ... a collection of 3 different block patterns, a triangle pattern, a block pattern and an E2E pattern. You can read more details about this collection HERE.

Click HERE to read about the Gossamer E2E pattern.

Take advantage of a celebratory sale on this collection throughl Labor Day September 6 with a mark down of 20% making the $60 collection price a new low of $48. You will need to enter a coupon code:    celebrate   

The discount will be shown when you complete your order at the check out time.

Comments

• Gorgeous Kay! I haven't done quilting in years, let my sister take that one over. These days I do more crochet than even digiscrapping but eventually I'll get back to it.
  by Vaughnde Edwards on 28 August 2010 at 10:53 a.m.