Welcome to Mountain Top Quilting Studio

(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 ...