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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.

Time for the next installment in this pattern. Are you ready? How is the cutting going? Be sure to drop me an email if you have any questions.

After you cut your strips you will need your Omnigrid 96 ruler for cutting the triangles from the 4.5" strips. Many ...

And we're off and rolling with the first step in making your quilt starting with cutting and constructing the block centers. Notice the pattern is sized for THROW, TWIN, QUEEN, and KING bed-sized quilts when all is said and done. Be sure to follow the correct columns and patch ...

Time for more spoiling ... Just for you ... three new patterns added to the FREE PATTERNS library.

To get today's Freebies just right click on the links above the images below in this post. But, if you've not gotten all the freebies yet you need to find your way ...

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 ...

Just for you ... three new patterns added to the FREE PATTERNS library. All you have to do is click your way over to the FREE PATTERNS pages. Left Click on each image to get to the individual product page and look for the words "Click HERE." REMEMBER, don't choose ...

 Today is a day for catching up on some of those loose threads I've left hanging from previous posts and giving a little love and support for all of you taking advantage of the freebies offered in the Free Quilting Patterns section of the store. First, Eryn's hat ...

The last week or so has been intense-pure craziness-attention to detail-check-recheck your entries-stay organized-keep track of your list-sync-sync-sinking (oh no!) kind of work here in the studio.

What caused all of this chaos? A site upgrade. It's been for the best and things are running much more smoothly. There ...

Dreaming 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.
• 1234 ...

The binding is finished ... almost ready to mark this one off the UFO list. Two things are left to do first: 

• add the little bee buttons ...or ... use the patch as shown in the photo. (Which do you think I should use?) 
• I'd like to add some journaling in ...

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 ...

(SUN COMPASS wholecloth quilting by Dani Fisk)

By special request: SUN COMPASS WHOLE CLOTH ADDITIONS ... No more having to divide or trim patterns that come in the collection. I've taken the hard work out of the process for you with just a few quick "strokes with the mouse pointer ...

Patterns used:

• 1402 HEARTS A FLUTTER BLOCK 2
• 1403 HEARTS A FLUTTER BLOCK 3
• 1374 TOUCHING BEADS SINGLE
• 1380 JOURNEY BLOCK 2

Creative Studio skills used:

In Repeat Mode ... concatinating, rubber stamp, circular array, rotation, and resizing.

And the bonus for today: a freebie - 1374 SINGLE TOUCHING BEAD is a ...

Every summer I host a retreat for my sewing group, The Scrappy Sisters. We meet on Friday night for a "Come One, Come All" BBQ Potluck. We bring, hang, and share quilts and quilt tops from retreats from previous retreats. We have the announcement and awarding of prizes to the ...

Brenda finished this quilt recently as a gift for her grandson. She wanted me to use a pattern with stars and loops. Nearly every designer has a pattern using a combination of circles or loops and stars in their catalog, and in fact, I own most of them. However, I ...

How many of you have fat packs of these fabrics languishing away in the back of a drawer somewhere? I know I sure do. It is such cute fabric but I could never think of a great pattern to show it to it full potential.

Let's give a big ...

"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:

She wants to use her 20% off cupon for an ...

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 ...

Today was a day of cutting, piecing, and computers. First, the cutting ... my red and white sample of TWISTING RIBBONS is hanging in my trunk show at Fabric Depot and this means I need to have another sample on hand for booth hangings in the area and regional retail shows ...

Today was a day of cutting, piecing, and computers. First, the cutting ... my red and white sample of TWISTING RIBBONS is hanging in my trunk show at Fabric Depot and this means I need to have another sample on hand for booth hangings in the area and regional retail shows ...

Oh my! New grandbabies, getting very sick with a repspiratory infection, and then playing catch-up really does put one behind. But, we should be back on schedule now. So let's get to the fun stuff .. what have I been working on?

Digitizing and Designing seem to be the task ...

How full of the creative genius is the air in which these are generated!
I should hardly admire more if real stars fell
And lodged on my coat."
--Henry David Thoreau, 1856

Hasn't this been the strangest winter for weather here in the Pacific Northwest? Snow, rain, and then ...

There isn't a one of us quilters that doesn't have bags (lots of bags, usually) of left-over batting scraps from our quilting projects. What to do? What to do? Oh, What to do with all of these scraps that aren't the right size for any of our ...