Quilt Otaku

I ran into this photo I took back in 2012. It made me smile and I thought that it might do the same for you. Apparently it seemed like ...

 I set out to knit a pair of argyle socks for my DH because after all he watched the boys while I took the class. It turns out that th...

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...

Stitches West is a knitting convention in San Jose, California. They have lots of vendors and tons of classes so for me it's a great...

For Christmas, I'm not the easiest person on the planet to shop for, but yarn is always welcome.  Between my little sister and my DH, ...

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...

With Thanksgiving behind us here in the US our thoughts are starting to turn to the Christmas Holidays. The kids and I made an Advent c...

I ran into this old photo that my sister took two years ago of me knitting a sock while holding her darling baby.   Quite moments are g...

Do you have a creative queue of some sort? I have a long running list of projects that I want to work on, with a priority/interest order t...

I've never made a pair of socks over the course of a weekend before. I would not have dreamed it possible actually, even for kid sized...

The knit turtle was feeling lonely. I created him a best friend to hang out with. They have already started causing trouble together. ...

Eating cute little turtles is hardly something I intend to start doing.  In fact I was shocked that there are lots of recipes out there fo...

I am hand quilting away like a mad person, but top secret project so no news of it here. These little crazy colored socks did get finished...

The last time I knit a pair of socks by Cookie A it was her most famous pattern called Monkey .  Almost 17,000 pairs of them have been l...

Towards the end of the school year our local public elementary school hosts an amazing art show. It is combined with an open house event...

My mom's birthday hovers either on or around Thanksgiving.  This year I wanted to fancy it up a bit for her, so I knit a beaded shawl ...

When the weather starts to feel a little bit colder, and fall starts to roll in, I sometimes get the urge to go nuts and finish up a bunch...

I decided to try and get through a very small new knit project during the summer Olympics this year.  The games had so many amazi...

My sister's friend had a new baby recently, and I made this little hat for her. I wonder if she will ever actually fit it on her ...

When I was teaching quilting a couple of weekends ago at A Verb for Keeping Warm in Oakland, a couple of yarn balls found their way hom...