The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

Ruler work, a garment and a quilt

It has been a scattered kind of week, a real luxury. I didn’t have to focus on some deadline or project, just work on what I wanted to! I’ve long wanted to work up this muslin, which will be a prototype of a jacket I want to make from this failed quilt. It is actually […]

There actually was blood drawn….

NOTE: I’ve got two posts this week. It just didn’t make sense to mix them together so I’ve got another post here about quilting density. Gimme a minute and we’ll get to the blood thing, okay? It’s been a teaching kind of week, a fabulous one! 25 engaged, prepared and enthusiastic students joined me from […]

Quilting Density – It makes a difference!

NOTE: I’ve got another post this week here. I’ve been working on this white silk quilt for some time, maybe a year on-and-off? I recently restarted it and I’m doing fills around the feather tips. This is a great example of how much impact dense quilting can have on what it surrounds. Those feathers are […]

A Couching Adventure

I took a great class this week from South African quilter, Telene Jeffries, aka Lady Jane Quilting. Telene is a superb and delightful instructor and patient with inept students, which I was in this class. The class was live on-line “Couched Applique as you Quilt“. I have not previously been successful with couching despite repeated […]