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.
APRIL 9TH: DIAMONDS ON THE DOUBLE
Come on into PUMPKIN PATCH QUILTS on Saturday morning from 10-12:30 and learn the tricks for making this patch unit easily and accurate every time. Kay will also share suggestions to help with color and fabric choices when piecing a scrappy quilt. For more information call Susan at 413-243-1635.
Want to schedule another piecing class with Kay? Look HERE for class ideas. You can come to the studio at Mountaintop (Lenox Dale MA) or Kay will come to you. Email Kay for more information. info@mountaintopquilting.com
More class ideas ...
Take advantage of a wonderful learning opportunity for quilters of all levels by scheduling a class with Kay. Her classes are designed with the student in mind helping them to develop new quilting skills and inspire and energize their imagination and creativity.
Contact Kay at info@mountaintopquilting.com for more information and to schedule a class at her studio or yours.
Design Dilemmas and Studio Stumpers
Level: All Levels Length of Class: 4 Hours (Lecture, trunk show/slideshow, open forum discussion)
Words to make us either shout for joy or shudder in our boots: “Quilt as desired.” “Oh, I trust you. Do whatever you think looks best.” “Surprise me!”
Join Kay for a session in establishing some strategies and guidelines for answering the challenge and the question that plagues us all from time to time in our quilting careers when stumped by the “blank canvas” of a given quilt top. Feel free to bring your “studio stumpers” either the real quilt top or email me a photo for use during class discussion.
Thriving vs Surviving
Level: All Levels Length of Class: 4 Hours (lecture, slideshow, hand-on planning exercises and tip sheets)
There is more to running a successful business than writing a business plan, setting up a bookkeeping system, ordering supplies, and opening your doors at 9:00 am every morning. Let’s take a second look at the creative entrepreneur within as you discover ways to breathe new life into your creative artistic soul while maintaining (or even increasing) the bottom line of your business.
Inside the Lines Outside the Box
Level: All Levels Length of Class: 3 Hours (lecture, trunk show/slideshow, and hands-on design time)
Explore the possibilities of the Statler Stitcher in the art quilt world as we look at adding color, image transfers, and ephemera embellishments to our projects. Be ready to enjoy the eye candy as Kay shows you her techniques using a variety of materials to create unique quilted works of art that start with a quilted design and grow as far as your creativity will take you.
Bread and Butter Whole Cloth Quilts Level: All Levels Length of Class: 4 Hours (lecture, trunkshow/slideshow, and hands-on design time) Everyone can use an affordable “everyday” wholecloth quilt in their home décor whether it be a summer white for a cottage bedroom, a base foundation quilt for showcasing a smaller treasured quilt, or beautiful unique comforter using the fabric you couldn’t bear to cut into little pieces. Let Kay show you how easy it is to design simple, elegant everyday wholecloth quilts using SAM (Stand Alone Mode) on your laptop computer, and then let’s talk about effective execution, as well as options regarding fabric, thread, and batting. Free Motion Commotion Level: All Levels Length of Class: 4 Hours (trunk show/slideshow, hands-on with paper and machine, as well as class handouts with exercises and tips) Come ready to play as Kay helps you transfer those doodled patterns from the margins of our journals, from the scraps of café napkins, and from the backs of discarded envelopes and get them under our needle and onto the quilt top. It’s all about muscle memory...so...bring pencil & paper, white board & markers, or even an Etch-a-Sketch and get ready to practice with just a few basic strokes as Kay shows you how to transform them into simple freehand fill patterns.
