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Jenny K Lyon

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Trapunto donation quilt for the Int’l Quilt Association

September 19, 2019 14 Comments

I was running behind on making a donation quilt for the International Quilt Association, the non-profit umbrella organization behind the Houston Int’l Quilt Festival. IQA asks teachers to volunteer a piece of their work for a fundraising silent auction held at Festival. I’ve donated each of the previous 5 years I’ve taught there and did […]

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A little Midwestern trip, post Grand Rapids Show

September 12, 2019 6 Comments

The trip to teach at AQS Grand Rapids gave me an opportunity to visit friends and family after the show. It left me (kinda sorta) in the vicinity of my hometown about 90 mi southwest of Chicago. I rented a mini-van and put in 1400 miles in four states in 3 days. I was thrilled […]

Filed Under: Life, Quilts and Art Quilts, Shows

AQS Grand Rapids

September 5, 2019 10 Comments

  NOTE: I posted last week on Saturday. You may have missed this post. This was one of my best teaching trips yet! I love to clean up before I leave so that I walk back into a clean slate. Jealous? Getting there had some adventure involved. I haven’t flown out of O’Hare in decades […]

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Bakersfield – the Cotton Patch Quilters of Kern County

August 30, 2019 2 Comments

It’s not surprising that it was hot in Bakersfield in August, but it was beyoooond hot! Most of my play was indoors so it all turned out well. Yeah, like THAT hot! It was 100 degrees at 9PM on Thursday. Given the high temps, this was not a visit where I went hiking! I left […]

Filed Under: Guild Engagements, Life, Teaching Free Motion Quilting

Feathers: New samples, thread, needles and fills

August 15, 2019 9 Comments

I accidentally sent off all my feathers examples ahead to Grand Rapids, so I spent some time this week making new ones. That is not a bad thing to do – the new samples are “fresh” and I changed them up to reflect the most recent changes I have made to teaching “Feathers Four Ways”. […]

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