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.

A new collection ... 1494 CELTIC ... and a new edge-to-edge  ... 1496 CATS ... don't miss out on the introductory discount price to make it easy and affordable to add these to your quilt design library.

Both came about by special request. The Celtic Collection was inspired by a quilt called Irish ...

If you were at the Southeast Statler Retreat in Atlanta this year you may recall a request for design help on a quilt called Irish Mist. Many in the audience had suggestions but most were edge-to-edge. The customer wants custom quilting with a Celtic flavor. After much searching through my ...

It wasn't in the plan. It wasn't on the map. Scheduled for release next week but I just couldn't wait. I got so excited about the possibilities of this collection. I couldn't stop rearranging pieces and parts to make up a new wholecloth design.

What makes ...

What a great conference we had in Atlanta during this last week. Thank you's and kudos coming your way to all the wonderful students and teachers in attendance at our Southeast Statler Retreat. An amazing wealth of knowledge and inspiration was enjoyed and shared all around, friendships made and ...

Have you seen the new patterns going up in the store over the last few days? I had a few minutes to play with a new wholecloth design in Creative Studio. This mockup features patterns from a new collection coming together called FEATHER SURPRISE. Individual patterns used in this mockup ...

Sleet, Freezing Rain, Hail or Snow

Does not matter

Hi Ho Hi Ho 

it's off to work I go

In hand ... my yummy cappuccino

I love my hand-held aerolatte for making my in-house special coffee drinks. Amazon keeps me supplied with my flavored syrups ... hazelnut being my flavor of ...

This last July at our retreat in Sisters Ruth Bass was our fearless leader as we played with some of her artbox supplies. The concept: Stitch It Then Paint it. If you've been following along for any length of time you will have read several different posts and had ...

"Come said the wind to
the leaves one day,
Come o're the meadows
and we will play.
Put on your dresses
scarlet and gold,
For summer is gone
and the days grow cold."
-  A Children's Song of the 1880's

 September To-Do List:

•  change out summer dishes to ...

Playing with the clam shell design and a small wall-hanging, this is the stitch-out inspired by Symphony Hall in Boston.

And look at these fun buttons I found to use as embellishment. At first I was thinking to use a variety of interesting metal buttons, and then I discovered the ...

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 ...

It's DESIGN CHALLENGE TIME ... are you a designing diva?

Time to dust off the mouse, open up Creative Studio and start playing. I've designed a new block that is easily divided so you can create and re-create until your "hearts-a-fluttering."

The challenge unit ... 1402 HEARTS A FLUTTER BLOCK ...

Elaine made her choice ... here's what she had to say: OH MY GOSH!!! I never win anything. Thank you, Thank you!!! I’m just so excited, I can hardly sit still!!!! I have just been drooling over your patterns! I would just love your “1190 Leafy E2E” I can ...

We all have them; we save them; we protect them in acid free paper; we shield them from sunlight and dust. We may even bring them out every year or so just to re-adjust the folds and admire them ... and then back into hiding for another long year or two ...