Quilt Otaku

In some parts of North America , people are getting a little relief from the snow. Here in the California Bay Area, we are finally get...

Hello.  Nice to meet you. I am Marisa's DIY Skirt (in progress) and she asked me to write a guest blog post for her today about my l...

Stitches West is a knitting convention in San Jose, California. They have lots of vendors and tons of classes so for me it's a great...

There are only two 'events' in the quilting and knitting universe that make my pulse rise. PIQF (of course!) and Stitches Wes...

I won't show you photos of the plants in my yard because they are more or less hibernating and looking rather sad. It's nice an...

I tried on the handspun wrist warmer I knit ages ago.   When I made it I thought the colors are too wild for my taste so I never made th...

My quilting needles have been bumping into the squishy-ness of cotton jersey lately.  It feels like trying to nail jello to a tree when yo...

Getting ready for my argyle sock class... There is a tiny bit of homework which seems to be knitting up quickly. I'm looking for...

Spotify finally came out with an app that sends basically and music you want to your phone. The free version has ads which isn't a ...

Not the best sunset photo I've ever taken, but probably not the worst either. It had some pretty colors and we caught it as we were wa...

My Alabama Chanin DIY skirt is still progressing along.  Not sure if you can tell from the photo, but it's almost half done.  Only a...

The January bug bites and organization is on my mind.  Not in a big way of course, since I'd rather create stuff than organize. St...

Lots of people are obsessed with washi tape .  I had picked up a couple of rolls of it but was still warming up to it. If you look aro...

The 1930's double wedding ring quilt that is usually on my bed is missing only a couple of small pieces.   They are just altogether ...

2014 seems to be in full swing for us, moving along quite swiftly, pun intended. It's the calm before the baseball season storm rolls ...

Just a quick progress report for you on my Alabama Chanin DIY skirt. It's almost 25% done and I'm still really REALLY getting a ki...

For Christmas, I'm not the easiest person on the planet to shop for, but yarn is always welcome.  Between my little sister and my DH, ...

As a quilter or a knitter do you find that time passes too quickly? I constantly feel like I could use that 8th day of the week, or that 2...

I look forward to seeing the first issue of the year come out from both Quilts Japan and Patchwork Tsushin because they have the calendars...

Hope that your new year was full of joy and peace.  We had a great holiday in general and relaxed for once. I'm still working away o...