The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

Chicago Quilt Festival 2016 and a Hometown Visit

Teaching at the Chicago International Quilt Festival was a first-time-through for me. I was excited to be able to teach and to be able to visit with friends and relatives after the show closed. It’s always a challenge just to get there with all my stuff intact. I shipped two huge boxes ahead since I made […]

QBI-The Quiet Beauty of the Imperfect

I completed this quilt months ago and it juried into QuiltCon 2016 in Pasadena in February. This is one of my all-time favorite quilts. Its beauty may not come off well in my photos but it is a quiet quilt. Quiet quilts do not tend to do well at shows or in competition. This is probably […]

Sisters Quilting Collective Show-2016

I actually went to two quilt shows on Sunday: Voices in Cloth (VIC), the East Bay Heritage Quilt Guild‘s show in Richmond, and the Sisters  Quilting Collective show in Sacramento. Both guilds put on shows biennially and dang, they were both on the same day! I was dead tired after a fabulous trip to teach at the […]

Cutwork Article in Quilter’s Newsletter Monthly!

I’m thrilled that my article made the cover of  April/May issue of Quilter’s Newsletter! Oooo-lookie that-my article title is on the cover! QNM contacted me last fall about the article and I was thrilled to write about cutwork.  Cutwork is a great place to start for newer quilters that want to start making projects but […]

QuiltCon 2016-Part 2

Most of the quilts in today’s QuiltCon 2016 post were in the smaller room. It contained Special Exhibits by Molly Upton and Gwen Marston and various categories including Improv, Handwork, Applique, Negative Space, Group Quilt and probably some I missed. I found the work in this room more interesting. I also discovered 2 quilts that would […]