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.

The binding is finished ... almost ready to mark this one off the UFO list. Two things are left to do first: 

• add the little bee buttons ...or ... use the patch as shown in the photo. (Which do you think I should use?) 
• I'd like to add some journaling in my own handwriting to this piece as well. My thoughts are in a couple of directions ... the story about my dad and his bee keeping adventures ... or ... the poem below. Hmmm ... wish I had pictures of my dad wearing his bee hat. Oh well, ...

 Dance of The Honeybee

Ed Keenan

Sunlight crossed the front of the hive

this morning ...

And with a dance in the heart,

the honeybees burst to the entrance

crowding the slender opening,

prepared to start the

circle dance.

Anxious for the hive to warm,

a signal to flee right on into spring

on to landing pads of bloom,

impatient for the

wagging dance.

And sunlight entered under my door

this morning …

And just for fun ... you can download the qli file for the honeycomb quilting pattern HERE for free. (Remember to choose "save" so your pattern will open correctly with your Statler longarm.)

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Comments

• Of course, Sherry, take lots of photos during your sharing session for me. I always love it when an idea or project sends out little sparks and ripples of creativity to other parts of the world. Keeps us all connected as we share common interests.
  by Kay on 31 January 2011 at 1:27 p.m.
• Kay this is wonderful - do you mind if I share your blog with the Indian Lake Homemakers Ladies group? At one of our annual meetings we had a beekeeper as our guest speaker and it was so interesting!
  by Sherry on 31 January 2011 at 12:42 p.m.
• LOL ... you're always good for an idea here and there. Thinking how long this little quilt took to get finished ... I don't know ...
  by Kay on 30 January 2011 at 10:48 p.m.
• How about a photo transfer of your dad with an appliqued bee keeper's hat with 3-D nylon netting?
  by Ruth Hofmann on 30 January 2011 at 9:44 p.m.