The Quilt Skipper

quilting makes me skip for joy

Jenny K Lyon

Quilting makes me skip for joy

A Finish! I think.

I have written about this fairly diminutive piece in no less than SIX previous posts , here, here, here, here, here, and here! Three of those posts were about that dog gone border. I began this piece in a Barbara Blanton Appliquick class with my guild. It is a fairly complicated block for a 6 […]

Still working it…..

NOTE: There will be no blog post next week as I will be traveling. See you on Oct 17th! After that, one more post before Houston and another break. Will you miss me? This will be a short post – I am going to be out of town for a few days and I just […]

Maybe this will work….

  The applique/trapunto project continues to grow and ask me for more, not letting the simple or “git er done” to prevail. So here’s what she asked me to do this week: I wanted to feather that border, it needed something that justified the central block: Ah, she asked for feathers, but not just regular […]

A finish!

  I just finished what ended up to be a class sample for a future trapunto class. I just kind of stumbled into this project. I have been working really hard on my yellow silk project that I wrote about here and here. I was getting burned out. I needed a fun frolic of a […]

Nobody bats a thousand

  It’s been an interesting week. I took a great class from Cristina Arcenegui Bono from Spain – online of course. Gotta admit, I am getting tired of zoom, but sometimes it is so worth it to take teachers you would never be able to take otherwise. And it was worth it to take Cristina’s […]