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.

One of the things I really enjoy about living in the Berkshires is how many more clear night skies we have than I experienced living in Oregon in the Portland metropolitan area. The reasons for this are … unlike the cloudy rainy Pacific Northwest, we are much drier even though we ...

Did you go read the article by Matt Gartland I posted yesterday? I was so taken with this sculpture. Usually I am not that excited about sculptures but this one really spoke to me ... the beauty and the passion ... the emotions it evokes. Chalk it up to the spirit of ...

Not much time for blogging this week as you can see. Sandwiched in between snow storms and shoveling duties, I was pretty focused on the projects in the studio.

I started the week with babysitting joy in Boston, but when I came back to the Berkshires I was ready to ...

Looking for .... An easy way to add images to your art quilts ..An easy way to add printed text to your art quilts ...

Here's what you need:

• Goldens Matte Medium
• Brayer
• Wide paint brush (nothing fancy or expensive … sponge brush works well, too)
• Image on an ink jet transparency ...

Wow, finally a day without contractors and electricians. They're all on vacation and I can quilt! Yeah! Look what is on the machine today, Cheryl. You've probably forgotten what your quilt looks like. I should have it off the machine, trimmed up and off in the mail to ...