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.

There isn't much fact to support the myth that the Pilgrims were introduced to popcorn by the Indians but since I have a frequent craving for this tasty snack I thought today might be a fun day, in light a particular new movie release, to enjoy some tips from ...

One of the ideas cooking in the back of my mind is to develop a art journaling project centered around the theme of houses, homes, the comfort of home, castle in the sky ... you know ... It just takes a heap of living to make a house a home. I just ...

HAT-TITUDE: they say that's what you've got when you're wearing your favorite hat and feelin' kinda sassy!

Just a quick update/progress report on the current knitting project - Eryn's hat ... I'm a little more than halfway finished with the crown section. I need a total ...

How could I wake up to more than two feet of snow and not write about it?

The first order of business ... Miso needs to go out. But I can't get the door open until I shovel the snow out of the way ... kind of like Little House on ...

So ... at the risk of opening a potentially touchy subject - How do your mornings go?

I'm one of those people who doesn't have time for sleep. There are just too many exciting things happening out there in the world and I don't want to miss out on ...

... where we left off last fall ...

I thought long and hard about how best catch up with everyone and to get going again and photo collages, in the end, seemed like the most fun way to reconnect. Guess it the proverbial "picture worth 1000 words" kind of situation. And we ...

Pathway Plunder, Track Treasures, Loot along the Lane ... call it what you want, but the bottom line is all of it is FREE for anyone who wants to carry it away.

I love going for my daily walks and seeing a sign like this along the road boxes and various ...

A Window In Time

We talked, we laughed
We ate, we played
And then we said good-bye
But each day, as I sit and sigh
And think about the days gone by
I’ll travel back again in time
If only in my mind.

by L.J. Sattgast

They're ...

 ... the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie ...

... snack time lounging ...

The question: "Hey, Kay, where have you been? You dropped off the face of the earth in April!"

The answer:

• being a grandmother
• Tanglewood rehearsals and picnic concerts
• being a grandmother
• in Oregon catching up with dear friends and teaching
• being a grandmother
• walking with fireflies and ...

Our March Design Challenge is almost finished ... just a few more days to take advantage of the $1 pattern special on 1402 Hearts A Flutter Block 2. Remember me telling you how easily it could be divided for additional design play in Creative Studio? All you have to do is ...

HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY!

I've been having a wonderful break from all the construction by hanging out with Eryn in Alabama during her Spring Break. Lots of movies, a little shopping, working on projects, eating REAL food and cooking on a REAL stove, and wonderful time for chattering ...

Time for an update on the progress we're making with the kitchen. It feels like home more and more each day. It's true what they say about the kitchen being the heart of the home. Not only was the house physically warmer when all the holes to the ...

Aren't these little mini carnations just the perfect color with the variegation of red and white. On my "bucket list" of quilts is a traditional red and white school house quilt. Someday ... sigh ...

Thanks Mike for the Valentine tussie mussie bouquet. I don't care what they say on ...

I can't remember on which blog I read about challenging the readers to celebrate the New Year by making up this cute Grab Bag pattern from All People Quilt, but I decided to accept the challenge. All-be-it a little late, I still had fun making the bag and I ...

Make a Smilebox postcard

I find the holiday season one of the hardest times of the year to have family scattered across the states. Most of the time I can fill my life and times with quilting and enjoy the solitude of a quiet house, but the emptiness looms with ...

Ah, the Grandma bug has bitten me. The babies are doing well. They've made it to 32 weeks and are weighing in at 4 lbs now. We're hoping they stay inside for at least 4 more weeks before they decided to brave our world and be born.

In ...

Here it is the end of the second week in January and I have loved my "slow-down" time. My friend Marje of Quilt Design Northwest asked me some time back,

"Kay, when IS your slow time?"

When you have to think about what the answer might be to that question ...

What a wonderful last two days .. had lots of fun and got a little bit of work done, too. Today I tell you about the fun ... and tomorrow I'll tell you about and post pictures about the work. Just a little hint ... you'll want to be sure and ...