Quilt Otaku

The last week has been just crazy for us. We had our house fumigated so we ended up moving out for a while and taking a fair amount of our b...

When you love to quilt, or knit, or spin, or bake...or whatever it is you do, there is always a way to find the time to do it. Lately, I...

There are days in your life that certainly qualify as major milestones. Your wedding day, when you first get your drivers license, the day y...

Busy week for us, but the highlight so far was having my knitting group over to catch up and visit. Some people look forward to their weeken...

Just a quick post since it's late. I wanted you to know that with a lot of good ideas from my mom and sister, and some help from my hus...

Here's a quick photo for you of the pincushion I made from Rashida's book I Heart Patchwork . A really cute little book. Her versio...

I finally made something from the I Heart Patchwork book, but I need to photograph it in good light for you. It's the little flower pi...

It turns out that if you are an almost 5 yr old boy, and take your mommy's favorite tanktop, and slip your arms through the arm holes s...

When we were in Barrington , Illinois, I bought some fabric from their Civil War section as well as some more shirtings . It's mostly de...

After wanting a spinning wheel for quite some time, I decided to take the plunge and order a wheel. We were up in Oakland at A Verb for Ke...

Before our summer vacation, I designed and made the kids little activity bags that I named their Travel Totes. I was expecting that they wo...

On our recent vacation, on the way back towards the Chicago airport, we were rushing to get to my favorite quilt shop - A Touch of Amish lo...

We just came back from a week in the Mid West. With lots of family there, we would love to visit more often but going there once every few...

If the front of your frig isn't a commentary on your life, I don't know what is. Some refrigerators are cute , some are ugly, and so...

When I was picking up soy sauce ( after I picked up my latest copy of Quilts Japan) I could not resist getting the most immature sparkle n...

Some dads don't mind helping out with the children. Some dads actually enjoy it. Then there's the dad of our boys - he pretty much ...

I'm still at it with my reproduction signature quilt. Lots more work ahead but I got some squares started last night during our knit ni...

Just a quick note to let you know I cleaned off my desk, and yes - there is still a desk under all that clutter. Good to know. Also a reco...

I could write a sonnet about shirting fabrics. I collect them, I use them in my quilts, and I am always hesitant to use one of them up 100% ...

The Sarah Johnson quilt requires 172 'star' blocks such as the above and I just made just over 100 of them so far. That puts me at ...