The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

Houston International Quilt Festival, 2024; The Quilts, Part 2

  You can find Part 1 here. I will write next week about the experience, teaching and the wonderful people I met! See Part 1 of the Houston quilts here along with an explanation of how I selected photos. Here ya go: Unusual techniques or form: Surface Design: Improv: Statement, emotion: Animals, Plants, Portraits: Other? […]

Last minute prep before Houston!

  It’s that time of year where I am in the final countdown to Houston. I literally walk around the house muttering to myself. I might be packing supplies for my ruler work class and suddenly remember I need to bring the “odd charger” for my speaker and Square thingy. I will run and get […]

A Finish! I think.

I have written about this fairly diminutive piece in no less than SIX previous posts , here, here, here, here, here, and here! Three of those posts were about that dog gone border. I began this piece in a Barbara Blanton Appliquick class with my guild. It is a fairly complicated block for a 6 […]

Still working it…..

NOTE: There will be no blog post next week as I will be traveling. See you on Oct 17th! After that, one more post before Houston and another break. Will you miss me? This will be a short post – I am going to be out of town for a few days and I just […]

Maybe this will work….

  The applique/trapunto project continues to grow and ask me for more, not letting the simple or “git er done” to prevail. So here’s what she asked me to do this week: I wanted to feather that border, it needed something that justified the central block: Ah, she asked for feathers, but not just regular […]