The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

“Put Your Best Foot Forward”-Come See It!

The first ever Northern CA-Northern NV Region‘s exhibit for Studio Art Quilt Associates has opened! “Put Your Best Foot Forward” opened April 1st at Creative Framing & Gallery in Oakland. The exhibit features 44 one-foot-square works from 26 artists-including my “Jewel Box”. If you’ve not seen work in this diminutive format, you will be pleasantly […]

Hope Springs Eternal

Ever since I sent off my SAQA donation piece last week, I’ve been itching to try another hand-dyed wool/organza/cut-work piece. But I couldn’t even start before finding more hand-dyed wool. I had a lovely visit with the uber creative dyer/quilter/surface designer Linda Waddle and I came home with this mini-stash of some of her gorgeous hand-dyed […]

Foothill Quilt Guild Show-2013

Lucky me, I finally got to go to a spring quilt show, my first of the season. “Prime Time in the Foothills” was this year’s theme for the Foothill Quilters Guild show last weekend. And it was indeed Prime Time-everything was in bloom and it was a spectacular drive to Auburn on a gorgeous sunny […]

Detour

I’ve had a bit of a run of things that have taken me away from my quilting-all of them good! But upon my return, I see a sea of work that I do not like: It’s not that I don’t like the stitching, it’s just that I chose a thread color on the front of […]

SAQA Donation Quilt-2013

After last week’s playtime with my hand dyed wool/sheer/cutwork piece, I was inspired to pull out a hand dyed wool piece I had purchased at my guild’s show in Feb. Patty Henderson dyed this beautiful piece and I knew I had to use it in a similar way. Spring is busting out all over Northern […]

Playing With Sheers and Wool

I took a fabric dying class from Linda Waddle last year and ended up with a treasure trove of beautiful hand dyed fabrics. I am always jealous when I see “fabric hand dyed by artist” in the description of a beautiful art quilt. This class gave me the chance to say that-hah! Today I got out […]