The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

December Free Motion Quilting Challenge

December’s Free Motion Quilting Challenge from SewCalGal was provided by Patsy Thompson. Patsy encouraged us to have fun free motion quilting borders. So I created this 22″ piece with a center medallion and 5 borders for the challenge. I used cotton sateen, wool batting and a variety of threads. I marked the feather spine, center medallion […]

Two More Tips: Lights and Blades

I’ve started on a new project and I’m in the Honeymoon Phase where nothing has gone wrong yet. So I’m sewing up a storm before my boys arrive for Christmas. As a result, I’ve got more tips: A BETTER LAMP Maybe it’s a bit pathetic that I am so excited about this, but I happened […]

Tri Tips

I’ve been in my sewing room a lot this week and as I worked, I came upon three handy tips that I thought I would share. BASTING WITH WATER SOLUBLE THREAD: I am beginning a new quilt and I decided to machine baste it together using water soluble thread top and bottom-that way I don’t have […]

Thread Tension Epiphany

I am starting a new whole cloth quilt and plan to use only 2 threads-one on top and one in the bobbin. That makes each thread choice pretty important. I’m firm on my bobbin choice of Superior Thread’s Kimono silk, but I still need to choose my top thread. I want a thread that behaves well and […]

A Chuckle

Recently a former student sent an e-mail to me with this in the subject line: “Was I supposed to take it out of the package first??“. She enclosed the following photo (the packaging you see in the photo is for the “Supreme Slider” which makes quilting easier):Her explanation follows: “I had to share this photo […]

Quilt Mission Statements?

Yes, I know it sounds odd, but for any major new project I create a simple Mission Statement of sorts. A Mission Statement provides a framework that guides my decisions, a kind of philosophical blueprint that keeps me on track. Otherwise I get lost in the detail! And really, the statement just captures what is already […]