Quilt Otaku

Quilting, Sewing, Knitting, and Spinning

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Hand Quilting and Steel String Guitar Practice

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After hand quilting way more than my usual amount, and having not developed calluses yet, my son asked me to play a little guitar for him. ...
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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Keeping Calm

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The Keep Calm and Carry On quilt top is done, and I'm in process of quilting it. I decided to use black thread to quilt it, which is a ...
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Monday, April 20, 2009

Mother's Day project: Silhouette Necklaces

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Yesterday my friend Sharon, of Knits are for Kids blog, and I worked on our Mother's Day silhouette necklace project. She turned me on...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Fabric from Singapore

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In my post office box I got the most lovely package. Mona, from Singapore, sent me the most amazing Victorian inspired fabric complete with ...
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Sunday, April 12, 2009

Happy Easter!

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Hope that this Easter finds your family together, happy, healthy and relaxed. I made this bunny ages ago from Hilary's pattern, found o...
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Thursday, April 9, 2009

Inspiration

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This is one of those weeks where I could just use a little inspiration. The "Z" key broke of my beloved work laptop (from signing ...
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Saturday, April 4, 2009

Visit From Gramma

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How nice is it to have my mom visiting for along weekend? Um...how handy do you think it is to have an extra pair of hands to juggle the 3 y...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Quilted Undergarments

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This is a photo of a quilted pantie that I designed and made. Little did I know that I would eventually get a contract from Nordstrom to ...
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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Victorian Silhouettes

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I love the Victorian era, and the album quilts that came from it. You remember my old Baltimore Album ...the eternal 'in progress' ...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Keep Calm and Carry On

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Have you heard about this poster that says " Keep Calm and Carry On " and all the popularity it is achieving in this recent downt...
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Monday, March 23, 2009

And the winner is....

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Hats off to all you rockin' photographers out there. Thanks for playing along and taking your before and after pictures for the photo ...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Before and After photos

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Looks like some of you have been busy with your cameras! Here's my 'after' photo. No flash, no clutter, and with some cute littl...
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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Quilter/Knitter Photo Contest: Let the games begin!

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Wow, I'm thrilled that so may of you want to play along with the photo contest! Let's do it! Above is my 'before' photo (a...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Photo contest - interested?

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I finally wrote the beginnings of the "Quilt Blogger's guide to Photography - your pictures will rock in 10 painless steps". ...
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Sunday, March 8, 2009

Quiltmania Magazine

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I suppose I couldn't pull a fast one on you. My last post was of course a picture of binding - and as Amy guessed, it is for my sister...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Brain Teaser and zillions of cool links

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OK Braniacs : Got an idea of what the above is a photo of? I'm sure some of you can guess it! Our little almost 6 month old got his fi...
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Saturday, February 28, 2009

Stitches West 2009

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Stitches West 2009 is a knitting convention that is on this weekend very close to my house in San Jose, California. My buddy Sharon and I...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Happy Fat Tuesday!

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Today is Fat Tuesday - the day before the start of Lent - a season in which Catholics often give up something ie . coffee, sweets, diet coke...
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Monday, February 16, 2009

Hand Dyed Fabrics

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The above is a picture of a quilt that was hanging up at PIQF last year, I did not make it, but I drooled over it and photographed it a coup...
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Sunday, February 15, 2009

Christening for our little one

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On Saturday, we Christened our baby son. He was an angel and did not even cry a tiny bit when the water was poured over his head. So many f...
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Marisa
Otaku (おたく) means "nerd", so I'm a wanna be Japanese-quilting nerd. I'm not Japanese though, just an American looking for tidbits of Japanese quilting while living here in San Jose, California - USA. I also knit and spin - find me on Ravelry and Instagram as quiltotaku
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