The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

PIQF-2013, Part 2

Finally-my last post of photos from Pacific International Quilt Festival 2013-enjoy! I’m finally catching on-anything by Sandy Curran catches my eye. Here, in “Human Beauty”, she deliberately chose unrealistic colors so that the viewer sees the play of light and shadow on the human body without being distracted by the humanity of the figure. Beautiful. […]

PIQF 2013-Part 1

I know Pacific International Quilt Festival happened in mid-October, but I am just now getting around to posting about it. I do think it was the best year yet. I only had a precious few moments to look at the show but I did get some good photos of some pretty spectacular quilts. This one […]

River City Quilt Show-2013

Sometimes the visitors are as charming as the quilts! Check out this Future Quilter and her Mom at the 2013 River City Quilt Festival. She was proudly holding her own Personal Quilt the entire time and was delighted to be surrounded by quilts-who wouldn’t be? The River City show is one of my favorites and […]

Bailey Island Hobo Bag-A Finish!

Okay-so this was supposed to be done in time to carry to Houston, but we’re just not talking about that. In the usual way, I did take a fairly simple project and make it unnecessarily complicated. Would you expect anything less? My local quilt shop, Meissner’s Folsom, had a sample of this bag in the […]

Free Motion Quilted Radiance Christmas Stocking

I’m beginning to think about Christmas! My local quilt shop, Meissner’s in Folsom, recently began to stock Radiance fabric . Radiance is a Robert Kaufman fabric that is 55% cotton and 45% silk. I love the sheen of Radiance and use it frequently in my work. But it was languishing on their shelves and I […]

A Tailgate Critique

I had a “Tailgate Critique” yesterday! How did that happen?? Read on. I am Co-Rep for the NorCA/NorNV region of Studio Art Quilt Associates. We held our quarterly meeting on Wednesday in Danville, a San Francisco Bay area community about a 2 hour drive from my home. One of the very best things about the […]