Quilt Otaku

It's been forever since I have had the itch to write a blog post.  This blog has for many years been my baby and my happy place.   ...

Recently one of my best friends knit a couple of one inch tall super hero characters for my boys.  I kinda wanted to steal them for myself...

Hello.  Nice to meet you. I am Marisa's DIY Skirt (in progress) and she asked me to write a guest blog post for her today about my l...

My quilting needles have been bumping into the squishy-ness of cotton jersey lately.  It feels like trying to nail jello to a tree when yo...

Just a quick progress report for you on my Alabama Chanin DIY skirt. It's almost 25% done and I'm still really REALLY getting a ki...

Hope that your new year was full of joy and peace.  We had a great holiday in general and relaxed for once. I'm still working away o...

Before I turned my eye to the final push of Christmas cards and gift wrapping, I had lofty ideas of finishing my Alabama Chanin DYI kit sk...

Natalie Chanin's hand applique work often includes beads. I have tried using them here and there on small projects, but I have it in m...

I've been playing around with another little swatch of fabric using hand stitching and Alabama Chanin jersey fabric. Looks like they ...

A quick photo for you of the simple skirt I made.  I'm no seamstress mind you, I'm really just a wandering quilter looking for ano...

A Verb For Keeping Warm in Oakland, California recently had a trunk show where we went to try on the various different garments and co...

It's rare that I attend an event that I am this excited over or this pumped up after. Now through August 26th A Verb For Keeping W...

Putting ink on fabric is something that I have a little hankering for at times.  After my made my Alabama Chanin t-shirt corset, I coul...

The conventional answer to that one is The Newspaper, but I'm not sure anybody really reads that anymore these days.  A bit of a shame...

The brain teaser post was so long ago that I'm sure you all know you got the right answer.  It was of course the ark from the Raide...

There are several online learning / crafting sites out there. I decided to sign up for 3 months of access at Creativebug mostly becau...