The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

Pencil, Practice and Process

I’ve been working this “Black and White Whole Cloth” quilt for months now and I think (hope!) I am nearing the end. Even I am shocked at how long this quilt has taken me-I started it in November after all! It’s going to be a large quilt-maybe 60″x80″-ish, intensely quilted. I wrote about it earlier […]

Santa Fe Textures

I just returned from the Studio Art Quilt Associates Conference in Santa Fe and I’m in a stupor. The word “amazing” is overused, but in this case, it applies. I am so overwhelmed by the sheer wonder of the experience, that today I am only going to post about the textures of Santa Fe. Texture-it […]

Serial Monogamy For Quilters

I am currently in a funk with the quilt I’ve been working on for six months. Our Relationship began last October at the IQF show in Houston with the kernel of an idea and became a Committed Relationship a month later in November when I began to work on it. But he was thought of long […]

A Few Ideas

I’m currently working on a large whole cloth quilt that has a lot of intense free motion work. It’s critical that the quilt sandwich moves smoothly so that I can make my movements with ease. I have seen my students struggle with this in class and I began to wonder if I could effectively communicate […]

“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 […]