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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.


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    DESIGN QUESTION: FEATHER SURPRISE BORDER

    Posted: 27 April 2011 at midnight

    Cindy quilt top

    Recently Cindy sent me some beautiful photos of a quilt she completed using the 1472 FEATHER SURPISE COLLECTION. She had some questions about using the border blocks. So I took some time today for design play using the blocks in question working up options for filling large triangle spaces and ...

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    CHOCOLATE COVERED CHERRIES

    Posted: 4 April 2011 at midnight

    SUE RED & BROWN

    Susan's quilt ... a scrappy 9-Patch using all different shades of red and brown. Part of what makes this quilt so effective is the way Susan used so many different textures, so many different shades, and varied the scale of print. What really pops is the fabric that is a ...

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    FEATHER SURPRISES ABOUND

    Posted: 28 February 2011 at midnight

    1476 FEATHER SURPRISE CORNER BLOCKAn email with triumphant shouts of joy and a request came into my inbox yesterday afternoon. Olga played with her Feather Surprise pattern in Creative Studio but now she needs a corner block with feathers going out rather than in as they are in 1471 FEATHER SURPRISE BORDER CORNER. 

    So ...

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    RIPPLES AND FLOWERS

    Posted: 20 February 2011 at midnight

    mqs 116 spring flowersDreaming of flowers during our February windy snow storm and a special request from Mitzi inspired this fun play exercise designing with Creative Studio. What better way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon than playing in your studio.

    You need:

    • Creative Studio ready to go starting a new project.
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    FEATHER SURPRISE WHOLECLOTH

    Posted: 19 February 2011 at 6 a.m.

    FEATHER SURPRISE WC MOCKUP

    Have you seen the new patterns going up in the store over the last few days? I had a few minutes to play with a new wholecloth design in Creative Studio. This mockup features patterns from a new collection coming together called FEATHER SURPRISE. Individual patterns used in this mockup ...

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    OFF THE LONGARM TODAY 1/13

    Posted: 13 January 2011 at 6 a.m.

    JUANITAS BIG STAR

    Not one, but two qults off the longarm quilting machine this week. The first one was pieced by my good friend Juanita. She made this comfy cozy flannel quilt for her grandsons. I used an edge-to-edge pattern that you can find in the Mountaintop Studio Store called 1375 Loopy Stars ...

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    SEAONAL CHANGES

    Posted: 4 September 2010 at 3 a.m.

    SEASONAL CHANGES"Come said the wind to
    the leaves one day,
    Come o're the meadows
    and we will play.
    Put on your dresses
    scarlet and gold,
    For summer is gone
    and the days grow cold."
    -  A Children's Song of the 1880's

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     September To-Do List:

    •  change out summer dishes to ...
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    LOG CABIN PLAY

    Posted: 3 April 2010 at 3 a.m.

    More ideas using 1402 Hearts a Flutter Block 2 and practice with the DIVIDE PATTERN feature in Creative Studio. 

    1402 HEARTS A FLUTTER BLOCK 2

    1402 triangle variation

    This block derivation was created by dividing the pattern as described HERE and then rotating half of the block 180 degrees. After adding a connecting p2p line and setting up the ...

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    CONCATENATING WITH JUNGLE FEVER

    Posted: 2 April 2009 at 12:57 a.m.

    Darlene's Hawaiian Star"Oh, just do whatever, Kay. You know I always like what you do. Just surprise me," said Darlene, and that was the start of an adventure.

    How would you quilt this quilt for Darlene?

    These are the things we know:

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    CONCATINATING GOLF

    Posted: 22 January 2009 at 1:14 a.m.

    golfI love the feature called CONCATINATION included with our Creative Studio software on our Statler quilting machines. Concatinating is a design process allowing us to create unique edge-to-edge designs using several different but related quilting patterns. We can choose an order in which we would like the patterns to be ...

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