Quilt Otaku

This week has been so very less than stellar. Our little one has a bad cold with high fever. We got our flu shots with hopes to avoid all o...

Today I took a yarn making class at this super cool shop in Berkeley, California called A Verb for Keeping Warm . Owner Kristine Vejar (show...

Christmas in July is so expected. That is when folks start their big projects for the upcoming holiday. Christmas in January...now that'...

A very long time ago, the lovely and talented Alex of Moonstitches made a scarf she called the rhubarb scarf . I decided to do something s...

Raise your hand if you're going to the Tokyo Dome quilt show this year! Ok , so I'm not raising my hand. Not for lack of interest,...

In case you don't live in California, and didn't feel all the earthquakes we've had in the last 24 hours, I'll just say tha...

WOTY , or Word of the Year as some call it, is the single word that you hope to live by in the new year. Happy New Year, by the way. Some of...

I remember being younger and playing all day on Christmas. Now that my husband and I are the hosts...it's hardly a day of rest for us. ...

To shake things up this holiday, we discovered quite by accident that our little one is highly allergic to nuts. You can imagine how much ...

Looks like it's only 1 week until Christmas. Are your stockings hung? Anybody out there besides me got some last minute projects still...

I made block "F6" from the Dear Hannah quilt pattern using Japanese taupe fabrics. Maybe I should call this quilt Dear Yoko instea...

Oh so busy busy, almost too busy to keep up the blog posts. Trust me, I've been out there quilting, and running all over the bay area on...

Our little 4 yr old has perfected what I like to call The Stink Eye. When he doesn't get exactly what he wants, he give us this look tha...

In the spirit of getting ready for Black Friday (the most popular shopping day of the year in the US), I created a little wall calendar for...

There are many ways to hang a quilt up on your wall. Thirty years ago, it was popular to put Velcro on the back of your quilt and also to th...

If you're smart enough to read blogs on the weekend, I figured I'd give you a real special treat here. Can you tell me what the abo...

This weekend was a productive one. We got a bunch of chores done and I managed to carve out some time to work on my creative projects. I pu...

In my 'knitting' group (where I usually quilt instead of knit) the girls have all sorts of projects going on. My friend Sharon of Kn...

I finally finished quilting the funky quilt that I made using antique blocks. The blocks were made around 1890. I set them with some modern ...

I've been many places on this amazing planet, but I've always been right here at home in the good old USA during Halloween. Maybe th...