The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

Quarantine quilting – the tale of a scattered serial quilter

  This week was scattered – mask-making, working my whole cloth tablecloth, playing with Lumiere paint, fixing some annoying computer/laptop/phone issues and starting a pieced quilt top that I may or may not finish. You know the apocalypse is nearing when you find me piecing, so there’s that too. So here’s where I land on […]

Quarantine sewing

It’s kind of hard to have a compelling blog post during a quarantine. It’s not like I went to a fabulous quilt show this week or had a super fun gig at a fabulous location. But I have been productive in a very different way this week. I find it very hard to sit still […]

Aloft, a SAQA Exhibit

Once upon a time, a long time ago, before Covid 19 really hit the US, the SAQA show Aloft premiered at AQS Daytona Beach (late Feb). I was able to see its debut. I didn’t have a lot of time to ponder the quilts as I was sneaking in time at lunch and after teaching. […]

AQS Daytona Beach, 2020

This was my first time to teach at AQS Daytona Beach and I had a blast! I have not been to that part of Florida before and I found it to be genuinely friendly and laid-back. The influence of the car is felt pretty much everywhere. The accent was seriously southern and the food that […]