Welcome to Mountain Top Quilting Studio

Posted: 11 January 2010 at 7:05 a.m.

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 ...

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Posted: 23 June 2009 at 4:27 p.m.

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 ...

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Posted: 18 April 2009 at 12:28 a.m.

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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Posted: 21 March 2009 at 11:34 p.m.

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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 ...

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Posted: 4 February 2009 at 6 p.m.

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 ...

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Posted: 21 January 2009 at 10:30 a.m.

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 ...

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Posted: 21 December 2008 at 8:14 p.m.

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 ...

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Posted: 10 February 2008 at 9:06 a.m.

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 ... ...read more