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.

Here it is ... one of the prettiest Christmas collections of fabric I've ever seen. You may be familiear with the Stonehenge line of fabrics from Northcott. It is a stale in their fabrics and they are the most versatile luscious texture laden fabrics I've seen in a long ...

I'm always looking for ...

• a quick hostess gift
• a quick gift for the guest room
• an easy sew project for beginning sewers
• fun quick and easy gifts for a holiday basket
• new ways to add seasonal decor items to make my home more cozy
• a project the recycles or ...

I hope you're able to celebrate this day set aside just for us quilters working on your favorite projects, finishing up a UFO (an unfinished quilted object) shop-hopping with friends, taking a quilt class, or even participating in one of the many on-line National Quilting Day mystery quilt events ...

It's time for the piecing phase of my business to kick in now and I get to start with creating the quilt pattern I designed for a collection from the Northcott fabric company designed by Sunshine Cottage called Stonehenge Skins.

This yummy bundle of fabrics starts with the gorgeous ...

Learning is a funny thing just by the nature of how it happens, and as Marva Collins says, "The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another." So what is this deep thinking all about, Kay, and what ever on earth does it have ...

Cut a strip here, sew a seam there, arrange a set of blocks into a row, apply a few borders and ... VOILA! And such was the tale with the yummy fabric bundle from Northcott. The collection is called Wellesley and includes a beautiful border stripe fabric.

I use two historic ...

They're here! Way last Spring during International Quilt Market 2008 here in Portland I placed an order for a line of 1930's reproduction fabrics. I have quite a stash of 30's but can never resist adding to the stash. I know how hard I look to find ...