Quilt Otaku

Our Easter was so much fun. My boys found many candy filled eggs left by the Easter Bunny. Since then, I have been under the weather though...

If you are celebrating Easter this weekend, I wish you the happiest Easter ever. For this holiday, we decided the dessert featured will be a...

Looks like not enough folks to hold applique class this month at "Verb", but looking forward to resuming in May. When we were at a...

Tomorrow is our April class where we applique modern house blocks over at A Verb for Keeping Warm in Oakland. This house is a beautiful o...

It was so strange to experience a brief hail storm today. I love it when the weather surprises me. Especially when I have an umbrella in my...

My son came home from school and was amazed that I knew the 2 nd half of the phrase describing how March weather comes "In like a lio...

As a general rule, I take all the photos for my blog, but today I am making a special exception. My friend, Janneken Smucker , emailed me ...

I could not resist this book when I was at Kinokuniya the other day. ISBN978-4-7966-7826-1: It came with a little plastic bag with handles....

On St. Paddy's day we usually try to do something festive. This year, I was frankly....just tired. My husband ended up cooking the entir...

I have been fitting in some spinning and quilting here and there, and managed to cast on a new knit scarf as well (and promptly frogged it ...

Showing a photo of some fabrics that I recently got from Verb . They are all imports from Japan. Reading many headlines about their recent e...

My mom's antique 1890's indigo and white mini-quilt is getting quilted little by little. I spent some time with my monthly weekend q...

I am knitting away on a scarf for my husband. I will come clean here and state that I LOVE to knit for kids because they are so tiny, and I ...

This Sunday, I'm teaching the Applique Block of the Month at A Verb for Keeping Warm . Come on and join us if you live in Northern Cali...

I visited Stitches West this weekend with my friend (and knitting genius) Marianne. It's a HUGE knitting convention in San Jose, CA and...

I've been working on hand quilting this very small antique (circa 1890's) quilt top for my mom. It's been a lot of fun and isn...

If you have not grabbed a copy of Quilts Japan issue 1, 2011, vol #138....maybe now is the time. The pages are full of traditional brightly...

I finished a pair of leg warmers in only a couple of evenings for my sister's little girl. She is a tiny ballerina, with teenie tiny l...

Today we kicked off our first applique block of the month at A Verb for Keeping Warm up in Oakland. I had it in my mind to make a modern ho...

I'm almost done with the modern applique block I designed for my upcoming hand applique class. We are doing a block of the month, and t...