The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

The River City Guild Quilters Guild Show – 2022

After a 3 year absence, it was time for the River City Quilters Guild‘s show! Clearly, it was a bumper crop year as there were so many fantastic quilts. Like always, keep in mind that some wonderful quilts are missing from this post because my photo was bad or I just lost track as I […]

Angst

  I did some dramatic things to my yellow silk quilt this week. There is no turning back now. I hope this works! I cut off the border. The raw silk was just too floppy and I knew this quilt would not hang well. I bit the bullet and removed the border. It was a […]

Sheer medallion finished!

  What else do you do when it’s 116 degrees? Quilt of course! Bayley still needs her walks, but they are shorter and altered to find shade and paw-friendly places. I was able to finish my sheer piece that I wrote about last week, which is currently nameless: This is a prototype, a lark, a […]

My kitchen, quilts, kits and cooking

It’s been another scattered week: kitchen-ing, frogging, Gramma-ing, kitting and cooking! The little sheer quiltlette that I’ve been working on has had its share of challenges. I consider this a prototype for what may be a future class, so I’m not so upset with some “visible learning curve”. There is an expression: “Visual decisions need […]

A little finish, a little teaching, a new project and more

I’m a little scattered right now. I would love to finish my yellow silk quilt, but I’ve hit a roadblock and I have to make some decisions: I need to come up with a border design. I think I like this insert between the center and the border, but I’m not sure about that either. […]