Quilt Otaku

Not every day that you get a brand new member of the family. This one will serve to keep us safe over many years to come....and it will a...

This little jam-filled, head made of bread, " Anpanpan " character is the most popular cartoon for ages 0 - 12 in Japan. His epi...

Annie Smith, who I've mentioned many times before (because I LOVE her podcast!, and pls see her link on the right as well) has recently ...

I finally got to the post office today, to mail out the apples to apples doll quilt, so that is happily on its way. My other acomplishment f...

The owner of Wee Wonderfuls blog , Hillary Lang, is making a doll quilt wall in her new baby's room. I'm thinking it may take her a...

I will admit that part of me was wondering if my mom would ever get around to making the log cabin blocks that we wanted to use to set the D...

Have you see the quilts of Gee's Bend in person yet? I had this pleasure recently in San Francisco...if they are in your backyard - pl...

Today is my last full day in Orange County, visiting the family, hanging out with friends. It is very sad to see this magical time come to a...

Today I visited Flying Geese quilt shop in Southern California (Old Town Tustin to be exact). I was not expecting to get a bunch of wool th...

My favorite book right now, I think, is this Yoko Saito book on applique. I have been leafing through it and thinking that there is probably...

When you visit Southern California, you sort of expect sun and warmth. Well...we packed shorts and tanks and ended up with a bunch of rain!...

Since I'm still on "vacation" I'm getting a bunch of quilting done. Our son, meanwhile, is tearing it up at the grandparen...

I ran out and bought this set of stamp letters, after reading Moonstiches blog. Her use of the stamps on little characters is cute. I mad...

This idea, as I mentioned, came from my mom's friend...so not my idea, but I'm impressed with it, and think it could be really helpf...

Genetically, I'm a mostly Irish person . Of course, there's other stuff sprinkled in there, but today of all days, I am and will cl...

Babies and grandparents have a special relationship, but this baby of ours and my parents are thick as thieves. They run around together...a...

Before I got super into Japanese quilting, and taupes, I decided I was going to make a Baltimore Album quilt. I managed to complete all 16 b...

Alright, after great research, I managed to figure out how to get Kinokuniya books to order me a copy of Chuck's book, 300-dear-Jane-ish...

Here's a TINY cherry blossom that I made with the clover plastic template. I tacked it onto that humbug bag, just to spice it up a bit. ...

Yesterday, my small quilt group met at our house. We are called The Tiny Peacers, because we all love detailed quilting, hand work, and ap...