The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

Making It Straight-Quilt Blocking

I have the happy problem of having 4 items juried into Pacific International Quilt Festival. The “problem” part comes in because that involves some mundane tasks: sleeving, blocking, labeling, shipping and making sure there are no Basset hairs, stray threads  or popped seams. So I thought I’d show how I block my quilts. I always, always […]

Free Motion Quilting Challenge -Sept

September’s Free Motion Quilting Challenge over at SewCalGal’s site was provided by Paula Reid. Paula came to my local guild several years back and made a lasting impression on me. Gotta love the hair for one thing! The girl knows how to quilt and has so many practical ideas on how to make quilting easier-I’ve […]

Lessons Learned: Marking

This is another case of  “I make all the mistakes so you don’t have to”! I learned so many things the hard way on my Lily quilt. I’ll be passing along my mistakes and remedies. First, marking. You know I don’t like to mark and I only mark when I have to. I put grids […]

Gold Bug Quilt Show

The fall quilt show season has begun-yeah! The Gold Bug Quilters show was last weekend and I got a chance to enjoy the quilts. Paula Beck did a demo on Sharpie Scarves-they are so cool! I had never heard of this before but after some brief research I realized that it’s been around for a […]

I’m a Believer

I thought I was done with “Mom’s Lily Bed”, formerly known as “Lily Quilt“. Just for grins, I thought I might add beads to the outer border, since I already had put them in one of the inner borders. I’ve been following Kathy Schmidt’s blog and she does some really nice beading on her art quilts. […]

August Free Motion Quilting Challenge

You don’t always win. And, you have to make lots of mediocre art to make great art. This I know to be true. Case in point:This month’s FMQ Challenge over at SewCalGal’s blog gave us a choice-either learn one particular motif or do a challenge provided by Susan Brubaker Knapp that uses environmental objects to create […]