The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

Free Motion Cutwork and Thread Choices

  I had some fun quilting this week. I wanted a redo on a cutwork piece I’d done recently. I’ve taught it virtually and the class went very well but as I pondered my class sample, I decided I wanted to improve it. It was a bit of a risk, but it turned out well […]

Teaching, taking and fall

  We’re going into another shut down here again, sigh. I just taught a delightful class at Meissner’s Main Store and was thinking how wonderful it was to teach in person again. Of course I forgot to take photos. This was a fun class, on Veteran’s Day, with a great mix of students including 2 […]

A Blast From the Past and Wayne Thiebaud at the Crocker

  So lucky me, I got to see real art, in person this week – what a treat! I viewed the Wayne Thiebaud exhibit, “Thiebaud 100, Paintings,Prints and Drawings” on display at the Crocker Art Museum. I had to make a reservation to enter the museum and because of restrictions, there were few people there. […]

This ‘n that

I finally just decided I was tired of festering over what to do with my trapunto bubble quilt. I loooove feathers, so I did a little sketch just to get a taste of what it might look like if I feathered it: Funny how the tiny filler bubbles define the feathers so much more than […]

Babies and other pretty things

I’m having fun with this baby stuff! Baby quilts are so quick to make. I have this cartoon in my head that my son and DIL will arrive for Thanksgiving in their Subaru Outback and leave pulling a 15′ trailer full of baby things that Gramma made, LOL! I think I need to pump the […]

Babies and bubbles

It’s not surprising that I have Baby on my mind. I’ve kinda gone overboard on this, you’ll see what I mean. It started so innocently…. I got this panel at Meissner Folsom, cute huh? It’s for taking photos as Baby grows. You put Baby down in the lower left-hand corner and put something around the […]