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.

I love red and white. I love red clothes. I love red shoes. I love red dishes. I love red in my quilts. So you can imagine my excitement when I read about the exhibit held in New York City in conjunction with the American Folk Art Museum just this ...

In all the hustle bustle of the world, the chaotic noise. motion and commotion that surrounds us in our dailey lives, the sheer sensory overload that bombards us to the very  core of our souls, it is very easy to forget to listen to that little creative voice inside of ...

You may have heard via the grapevine that we have moved. Yes you heard correctly. We purchased a house in Lenox Dale MA in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts and are currently selling our home in Oregon. To explain my long absence … how did this all come about?

It ...

A Rough Landing ... is what happens when ... 95 pounds of dog bumps into you during that split-second you are airborn while running. We (our new dog and I) were out for a morning run the day after we got him. He left the house name Boris, and he came back ...

Time is running out for the completion of my journal quilt block for this month of April. Our word this month was "freedom" and the quote:

Happiness is Freedom; Freedom is Courage.

Our technique challenge: we're to visit our art supply cupboards and find materials that would work for ...

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I'm very guilty of bringing the concept of multitasking to a whole new level. That can be a good thing and it can also be a bad thing. In a communications class I took once the instructor reminded us that most of the time "our ...

Only 4 more days and I get to get away with friends and sewing buddies for our annual quilting retreat organized by my good friend Barbara. They say, "a picture is worth a thousand words" so enjoy my memories from QOTL 2008 while I contiue with packing and doing all ...

I never thought I would say this, but being without internet is worse than being without chocolate!

Finishing up with the work of the day for Friday, I logged off about 3:00 AM Saturday deciding to call it a night. I had spent the last few hours entering new ...

This was the view of our world when we got up this morning. Continued snow showers, windy conditions causing drifting snow, and occasional bouts of freezing rain happened all through the night and greeted us in the morning with beautiful snow/ice crusted limbs and a sparkling fairyland. The whole ...