Quilt Otaku

Where we live here in California, it gets quite warm in the late spring and summer. It isn't a far drive to Lake Tahoe though for some ...

The other day, I went to my mailbox to pick up a package sent to me by Foong Ming. She is a quilter, a reader of my blog, and happened to a...

Did the food scientists who developed Mac n Cheese think of it as a St. Patrick's day food? Well, perhaps not, but with a generous amou...

I'm still plugging away on my signature quilt. It's been slow going since the baby has been sick on and off again. I ended up missi...

Answer to my brain teaser is that I made bracelets! After teaching my son's class how to use a drop spindle , I gave them each little br...

In the last week I have been: - Snowed on (which would not be a big deal to a lot of people, but since I live in a pretty warm climate it w...

Perhaps I should be stopped from watching the Olympics, but gosh they are pretty cool. Speed skating is by far my favorite. In the 'go...

While the winter Olympics has me glued to the couch like a serious couch potato, all that flashy gold made me think of this gold sweater t...

Thanks for the comments on the Catherine Wheel Scarf. In case one measly photo wasn't enough of it for your personal taste, perhaps yo...

After looking at Alex of Moonstitches ' rhubarb scarf a billion zillion times, and after some of my knit night friends gave me a littl...

Another little Dear Hannah taupe block is complete and my collection of them continues to grow. I used Japanese taupe fabric and the freeze...

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 ...