The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

Deadlines and Decisions-Poppies Revisited

I have a very simple motto-“just go forward”. It means that instead of fixing less-than-perfect work, I’ll “go forward” and fix that on the next piece. I don’t think I learn a lot from ripping out work. My Poppies quilt really challenged that motto. I was up against a seemingly impossible deadline. At several points […]

SAQA Regional Exhibit, “JOURNEYS”, in Tucson

As a member of Studio Art Quilt Associates, I knew I could ask the Yahoo group if there would be any textile art exhibits during the time of my visit to Tucson. Lucky me-SAQA-Arizona was hosting its first ever juried exhibition during the time of my visit, so I was able to view it while […]

The River City Quilt Show-2014

The River City Quilters’ Guild show is usually the last one I get to each year. This year’s show seemed smaller but I thought it was one of their best. There seemed to be a lot more art quilts this year and yet still there were lots of great appliqued, pieced and bed quilts. Toni […]

Another brag…

And it’s not about me! One of my students, Luanne Chittenden, won an Honorable Mention ribbon in the Traditional category on her very first entry into Pacific International Quilt Festival-I’m so happy for her! PIQF has only 3 quilt categories so it’s a big deal to get any kind of a ribbon. Her quilt is […]

Houston International Quilt Festival 2014-The quilts

I’m including all my quilt photos in one post-I only had 40 minutes on the quilt floor! So I ran around like crazy snapping photos that I figured I’d look at later. I hope you have friends that went to Festival and took better photos than I! How do you approach your visit if you […]