Quilt Otaku

Sorry to gross you out. but I thought that you could use a little pick me up since it's Monday, after all. Why is it cool to have bl...

Ever since I visited The Workroom in Toronto, I have been wanting to go back. With no trips there on the immediate horizon, it seemed h...

Getting out there in the field with your camera isn't always easy. If you love to shoot film, sending your film off for processing a...

Last year I bought a "Snowball Hydrangea" plant when I was shopping at Filoli .  Ever since I bought it....it's been the pla...

I dug out my modern house blocks and started to think about putting another border on them. I was so in love with this project and the...

First let me say that I did not make this amazing shawl, but I did have the great pleasure of photographing not only it, but I also got to...

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 ...