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Jenny K Lyon

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Six useful products or techniques I used to quilt my vintage quilt

May 31, 2023 2 Comments

  I have just had a blast quilting my vintage quilt top! These six things made the quilting process so much easier. You may not need these items for every quilt, but for this quilt, each one was helpful. It’s taking a LOT longer to finish this quilt than anticipated. Here we go: Basting with […]

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A 3-day seminar, a lecture, progress on my vintage quilt and my kitchen

May 25, 2023 2 Comments

  It’s been a particularly busy 2 weeks! My 3-day seminar at Meissner Folsom was a great success. Seven eager students of varying degrees of experience gathered to learn as much as possible in 3 days. Unfortunately I was immersed in teaching and took only a few photos: This was the only “class photo” I […]

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Vintage Tulip Quilt, my spring yard and kitchen cabinets!

May 10, 2023

I’m making a run at completing my vintage quilt top in time to enter the Houston show. It’s a looooong shot but I’m trying, so I’m chained to my machine – dang! I have done the background quilting on all the blocks: And a few selected blocks (note that I have just sprayed at the […]

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Empty Spools 2023

May 3, 2023

  Oh what a glorious week it was ! I was privileged to spend 5 fabulous days with 14 free motion quilting students and it was a blast. We sewed and laughed and ate and got to know each other and quilted and even enjoyed a 2 min solo from our resident Dramatic Soprano. We […]

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Easter and a whole lot of this ‘n that

April 13, 2023

NOTE: I’ll be teaching at Empty Spools next week and I may not have time for a blog post or newsletter. This week I will have a newsletter. The best way to follow me is through my newsletter – you get my blog post plus other interesting “curated content” (I just learned to call it that, […]

Filed Under: Life, Quilts and Art Quilts, Remodel

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