Quilt Otaku

With all the upcoming kid birthday celebrations, company coming into town, and general hoopla soon to be coming our way, we did the only pra...

We are having a puppet themed birthday party this year. In my usual micro-detailed fashion, I wanted to make the party invites super cute. ...

As I mentioned before, I'm a huge fan of antique quilts and quilt appraisal in general. My hope is to someday become an AQS certified q...

I whipped up this number 4 block so folks at my son's birthday party can sign it and write a message on it for him. You can see the 1 b...

Win some: I seriously never win anything. I seriously am never expecting to either. However, that amazing feat did take place, and I won a b...

My sister and I are in full planning swing to play for the one year old birthday parties of our babies. Her girl will be 1 in about a month ...

This little quilt I'm working on is turning out to have a couple of firsts for me. I have practiced a lot of feathers just for fun, but...

I have spent a lot more time moving my sewing machine from storage (read: the floor of my office) to the kitchen table than using it to actu...

This weekend my mom and sister visited the Long Beach International Quilt Festival . I will freely admit that I felt a small tinge of jealou...

Ms. Yoko Saito has of course done it again by putting together a beautiful book on the use of taupe fabrics in quilting. In case you are l...

Road 2 California quilt show is planned for next January and accepting applications from folks to host quilts in the show as well as sign...

Hope folks in the U.S. had a great long weekend for the Fourth of July holiday. We did a lot of relaxing, and I logged some serious time hol...

Some of you may be reading Moby Dick this summer, or perhaps works of Jane Austin. Meanwhile, I'm digging into more Japanese quilting...

As a general rule, I don't do a lot of food photography, but I could not resist taking a quick shot of the wanna-be-french macarons th...

I just finished putting the binding on this mini star quilt. The pieces of fabric were went to me by Kathie of Inspired by Antique Quilts B...

Here's the 2nd part of the Broderie Perse labels - this label is on the back of our baby son's quilt. Again I took some fabric from...

My mother's day gift from my parents included a piece of Echino Oilcloth ( from Purl Soho ) big enough for my breakfast nook table. It...

To spice up my niece's quilt, I used a broderie perse applique method to create the label. Anna Maria Horner ( her blog ) is a super...

Last weekend our family drove from Northern California to Southern California to visit the grandparents and Aunt/Uncle/baby-niece. Her quil...

Is there such a thing as "Excess Fabric"? I was searching for a topic for my blog post tonight, since I wanted to show you a photo...