The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

A finish!

  I just finished what ended up to be a class sample for a future trapunto class. I just kind of stumbled into this project. I have been working really hard on my yellow silk project that I wrote about here and here. I was getting burned out. I needed a fun frolic of a […]

Pine Tree Quilt Guild Show 2024

  It’s quilt show season – can you tell? The Pine Tree Quilt Guild show was last weekend and I think it was their best ever! There was a huge variety of quilts of every genre and I was happy to see a good number of Modern quilts too. I try to limit my posts […]

The Loom Quilt & Fiber Guild show, 2024

  The theme for the Loomis Quilt and Fiber Guild Show this year was “A Wonderland of Quilts” and it was a colorful show! There were lots of bags and other fiber creations, making it an interesting and varied show. I always have such a hard time culling my photos; I try to keep it […]

Spring in NorCal

  It’s been a week with not a lot to show, even though I’ve been quite busy. I’m planning a family trip to Denver this summer, working on the never-ending beaded piping, entering shows, booking contracts for 2025, finished a secret sewing project and catching up on admin stuff. I decided to show off my […]

A whole lot of this n that

  It’s been a fractured week with a visit to the Sunshine Quilters of San Diego,  a pin basting debacle, progress on my beaded piping and tiny DIY project. First up, “Why I Don’t Pin Baste”: I am quilting a small project that includes a variety of substrates with some stiff embroidery stabilizer and some […]