The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

Houston Quilt Festival 2015-Part 2-The Quilts

Now, the quilts! Today I’ve included photos from Viewpoints 9, two of the SAQA exhibits: Wild Fabrications and Balancing Act, Modern quilts, and 3 quilts that are simply my favorites. I have seen several other posts by others with photos of amazing quilts that somehow I missed. You must know that my tour of the quilt […]

Houston International Quilt Festival-The Experience-Part 1

I’m overwhelmed, in a very good way, and it’s hard to know where to start. Maybe with the numbers: 8 days, 5 full classes except one (5 short), a Sampler and Machine Quilter’s Forum (hundreds at each, multiple instructors), 2 Meet the Teacher events, at least 5 countries represented in my classes, countless renewals of friendships, many […]

IQA Donation Quilt-2015-“Windswept”

I’m down to the wire on my Houston prep and one of the things I just got to was my donation quilt. Quilt Inc. is the non-profit umbrella organization of the quilt show. Each year they ask their teachers to consider donating a small quilt to raise funds for the organization. I’ve donated one each year […]

Prairie Afternoon-My 2015 PIQF entry

Prairie Afternoon is the title of my entry into the 2015 Pacific International Quilt Festival (PIQF). It was one wild ride to make this quilt! Everything went wrong, until it didn’t. I like the final product and I’m shocked that it all turned out. My inspiration was drawn from photos I had taken when I […]

Sierra Gold Quilt Show-2015

The Sierra Gold Quilters Guild was hit hard by the recent fires but their show went on! Fortunately all the fires were gone, the fairgrounds were untouched and it was a beautiful fall day. The guild’s Opportunity Quilt was especially appealing to me but no, I did not win it, sigh. NOTE: For some inexplicable […]

It’s all about the puff

So, funny story: I took a 5 1/2 day class from Diane Gaudynski at Empty Spools/Assilomar. Right next to us was a group whose mission was to legalize marijuana. They were an odd bunch, no two ways about it. The men were wearing rumpled message t-shirts with phrases like “If the whole world smoked weed, peace […]