The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

Quarantine Quilting Week 4 – Frustration and a finish (almost)

  I’ve almost finished my virus quilt (no name yet) and have moved on to my  tablecloth quilt. I received a sweet reminder note from the Houston people that the due date for submissions to the Houston International Quilt Show was just 4 1/2 weeks away. Yikes – I’d better get busy! But first, my […]

Quarantine quilting – the tale of a scattered serial quilter

  This week was scattered – mask-making, working my whole cloth tablecloth, playing with Lumiere paint, fixing some annoying computer/laptop/phone issues and starting a pieced quilt top that I may or may not finish. You know the apocalypse is nearing when you find me piecing, so there’s that too. So here’s where I land on […]

Quarantine sewing

It’s kind of hard to have a compelling blog post during a quarantine. It’s not like I went to a fabulous quilt show this week or had a super fun gig at a fabulous location. But I have been productive in a very different way this week. I find it very hard to sit still […]

Aloft, a SAQA Exhibit

Once upon a time, a long time ago, before Covid 19 really hit the US, the SAQA show Aloft premiered at AQS Daytona Beach (late Feb). I was able to see its debut. I didn’t have a lot of time to ponder the quilts as I was sneaking in time at lunch and after teaching. […]