The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

Mini Breeze

I’ve been super busy, and for the first time in weeks I had time to quilt. What a joy it was to be able to sit and quilt a bit. I created a little 6″ x 8″ quilt for the Studio Art Quilt Associates Anniversary Spotlight auction that will be held at the upcoming conference […]

March Assignment-Design Master Class

I recently ran across this succinct and accurate description of “The Creative Process”: 1. This is cool! 2. This is gonna be hard. 3. This sucks. 4. I suck. 5. There is hope. 6. This is cool! I think that is an apt description. I lived every one of those steps last month while completing […]

East Bay Heritage Quilt Show 2014-Post Script

Some of you may have noticed that my post on the East Bay Heritage Quilt Show, Voices in Cloth, has disappeared. There’s a story there. The guild had printed on their program that photos of quilts were not to be shown without specific permission from individual makers. Oops-that did not hit my consciousness and I […]

SAQA Benefit Auction Quilt Donation-2014

I just sent in my donation for the 2014 Studio Art Quilt Associates Benefit Auction. The Auction is SAQA’s largest fundraiser besides membership dues-this will be my fifth year to donate. You can see all the quilts in this year’s auction here-be sure and check back frequently because it’s still very early. I decided I […]

Foothill Quilt Guild Show-2014

I had a wonderful weekend filled with two quilt shows and a gathering with old friends. I attended the American Sewing Guild luncheon and got to catch up with sewing friends I hadn’t seen in awhile. I then took a lovely 90 minute drive back in full tilt glorious spring weather to see the Foothill […]

Good News!

Last Thursday had one of those rare moments that you want to savor-I received two acceptance notices in the same day. I was juried into a regional show of Studio Art Quilt Associates and I was also notified that some of my work will be included in an upcoming book by Sandra Sider titled “1000 […]