Quilt Otaku

I wish I could drop this photo in the postal mail to all of you since our summer has been going so swimmingly (pun intended). I'm here...

Anzula is a yarn company that makes perhaps THE softest sock yarn I have ever felt.  The base is called Anzula Squishy and the colorway I...

Purl Soho , the beautiful store, is a treat that only those on the island of Manhattan are privileged enough to enjoy. Clever Californians...

Putting ink on fabric is something that I have a little hankering for at times.  After my made my Alabama Chanin t-shirt corset, I coul...

I am admittedly a person who really likes to use hand sewing techniques to make quilts. By veering of that path into making a garment I ...

The last time I knit a pair of socks by Cookie A it was her most famous pattern called Monkey .  Almost 17,000 pairs of them have been l...

Even my pin cushion has taken to a lighter theme for the summer. I wonder if the Lex Luthor minifig  is uncomfortable with the orientati...

This image from my window seat recently got me to thinking how beautiful the view is up above the clouds. I took a small knitting...

Making your own yarn is an endeavor not to be taken lightly. It allows a knitter to get to know a lot more about the fiber and where it ...

I've been doing a fair bit of hand quilting lately. Seeing the three layers of the quilt come together and the texture of the stitch...

I have a subscription to both of the popular Japanese quilting magazines (Quilts Japan and Patchwork Quilt Tsushin). Some issues inspir...

If you have read my blog for a while like a lot of you have, you probably well know that I'm a serious California girl.  I love living...

The conventional answer to that one is The Newspaper, but I'm not sure anybody really reads that anymore these days.  A bit of a shame...

Towards the end of the school year our local public elementary school hosts an amazing art show. It is combined with an open house event...

I have been working on a mini-table runner using reverse applique and methods invented by Natalie Chanin . The project itself has been a...

I'm probably not the only person on planet Earth that loves Baseball season. In past years I have cheered for my old home town team ...

The brain teaser post was so long ago that I'm sure you all know you got the right answer.  It was of course the ark from the Raide...

Just a quick brain teaser for you to wrap up your weekend.  Excuse the fact that it isn't exactly related to quilting. Anybody out t...

When I originally broke out the airbrush and painted some fabric for an Alabama Chanin style test project, I also created a darker color p...

At Stitches West this year I took a class on Twined Knitting from author Laura Farson. It was very different than the usual knitting me...