The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

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. […]

The California State Fair, 2022

NOTE: I will be traveling next week and won’t have a blog post. I may be back Aug 4th…or maybe not. I will be teaching at the Long Beach Quilt Festival then. Please stay tuned. I’m running as fast as I can! It was the first California State Fair in 2 years and I was […]