The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

Two new projects, Quilt From the Back and more

NOTE: There will not be a newsletter this week as I’ll be traveling that day. I forgot to add that to last week’s newsletter. If you’re not already getting it, you can sign up for my weekly newsletter here. It’s been a week of new starts, pondering what’s next and a discovery. First, the discovery. […]

Two things

I worked on two things almost exclusively this week, well actually one tiny thing and one gigantic-seemingly-unsolvable thing. On a whim, while cleaning up my workspace I ran into my bag of goodies from last year’s Houston Fall Market. Market is so. much. fun! All the vendors are showing their wares and new stuff, giving […]

Two finishes!

Well, kinda two finishes, more like wrapping up what was about 90% done previously. But hey, I’ll take it as a finish! I did ultimately decide to go with the “back” of the organza sheer SAQA Auction Donation quilt: If its purchaser prefers it the other way it will be easy to move the tiny […]

Finished – Much in Common!

I finished, just in the nick of time! I submitted yesterday afternoon, with a wee bit of trauma, but it. is. done! I named her “Much in Common”: “The linen tablecloth and I are about the same age. We both have some worn parts and stains, and not everything is symmetrical. It was a pleasure […]

Quarantine Quilting – Week 8: Details!

  I hold the notion that most times it’s the final 10% of your quilting decisions that make or break your quilt. I think I have way more that 10% of work left, but only a few decision areas left.  All of those revolve around the border. I have gridded the border, no small task […]

Quarantine Quilting Week 7: Stippling, Knots and Hikes

This week I concluded, there is hope that I can finish this quilt in time to be able to submit to the Houston show. Hope, not a slam dunk, hope. I micro-stippled for days-on-end this week. And buried another 1.5 million knots. And just to switch tedious tasks, I finished embellishing 20 feet of rick-rack: […]