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.
AdventuresRED AND WHITE
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 ... ...read moreTAKING TIME TO BREATHE
THE ADVENTURE BEGINS
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 ... ...read moreUNPLANNED VACATION
PLAY DAY
Happiness is Freedom; Freedom is Courage. Our technique challenge: we're to visit our art supply cupboards and find materials that would work for ... ...read moreA CREATIVE SPIRIT RETREAT
Click HERE to enlarge. 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 ... ...read moreRETREAT MEMORIESOnly 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 ... ...read moreAIN'T TECHNOLOGY GRAND!
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 ... ...read moreARCTIC BLAST: Part 2
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 ... ...read moreRETREAT ... YEAH!!!
Oh, I'm almost packed with enough UFO's to piece for a month and the retreat only lasts until Wednesday. I think I won't run out of stuff to work on ... bindings to finish, taking the quilting out of a small wallhanging (just didn't like the way ...
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