The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

A Finish! I think.

I have written about this fairly diminutive piece in no less than SIX previous posts , here, here, here, here, here, and here! Three of those posts were about that dog gone border. I began this piece in a Barbara Blanton Appliquick class with my guild. It is a fairly complicated block for a 6 […]

A week of this n that

  It has been a week of variety:  a guild visit, hand applique/trapunto and beginning to prep student kits for Houston. My visit to the Amador Valley Quilters was so much fun! I stayed with my friend Jeanne and we solved all of the world’s problems over the kitchen table. The guild meets in Pleasanton, […]

Update and follow-up on air erasable pens

  This is an update to my previous post about air erasable pens. The project I am working on has a variety of silks, some of which have unstable dyes. Wetting that quilt is out of the question. My only choice was an air erasable marker. I won’t go into why other methods would not […]

Spring in NorCal

  It’s been a week with not a lot to show, even though I’ve been quite busy. I’m planning a family trip to Denver this summer, working on the never-ending beaded piping, entering shows, booking contracts for 2025, finished a secret sewing project and catching up on admin stuff. I decided to show off my […]