The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

Working my way through “Art and Fear”

One of my favorite art books is Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking (David  Bayles, Ted Orland). It is not a how-to book, nor is a book about inspiration. It is about the work of making art. It explores the process of making art and why it doesn’t get made. And […]

Work and play

I’m done, I’m done-my unpacking is done! I finished after 16 straight days of hard labor and it was worth it. I am shocked to report that everything I needed fit to into my Studio, with room left over. Which means that I probably over-purged. But dang, it feels good to have everything clean, organized and […]

Progress, kinda

What a week! I have been working on unpacking 11 hours a day for 2 weeks now and I see some light at the end of the tunnel. I think I will be done in 2 more days. Then I will have to play catch-up with all the rest of life like groceries, errands, cooking […]

Vignettes old and new

We have made the move into the “new” house, our remodeled old home. What a brutal task this is-the second move in 5 months! The move came in waves-the first was all of our things from the rental, followed 6 days later by our things in storage. I was able to get the rental unpacked […]

Update-Houston and Beyond

WordPress refuses to load my photos this morning so I’m doing a quick update instead. It’s been a whirlwind year for me so far. Yet there is so much more that I want to accomplish! But there is just not enough time for it all-I have to accept that. I definitely have a serious case […]