The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

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 […]

Houston International Quilt Festival-The Quilts-Part 2

There was a bumper crop of spectacular minis in this year’s show. Keep in mind that miniature, as defined by the Festival, is any quilt that is less than 24″ on each side. I don’t think any quilt I have pictured here exceeded 14″ on any side. This little gem has been inked, painted and […]

Houston International Quilt Festival 2013-The Quilts!

I’ll have a couple of posts on the amazing quilts at the International Quilt Festival in Houston. Somehow there were some key quilts that I did not take photos of-grr! There was something for everyone in this show: Carol Morrissey interpreted a photo of roses sitting in her kitchen window and created this lively piece. […]