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  We are going to be taking a few days off here at BAQS... but never fear July the 5th  we will be back at it and along the way there will be content that auto-magically pops up with the help of technology including the winners of any giveaways. In fact I suspect...

Sometimes there are just quilts that stop you in your tracks with their vibrance and pure happy energy.. those are the sorts of quilts the Linda and Carl Sullivan create! Together Linda and Carl are Colourwerx, a married team of amazing quilt designers who are...

The days are long but the years are short when it comes to children. Last night I sat on the sofa shoulder to shoulder with my youngest child, not so much a child but really a man-child. Sixteen years old and taller than his mother and smarter too. I still have a few...

  Sometimes a collection comes along that is SO lush, so happy and so dang usable that you just know that it has to be yours! Zola is the newest collection out from the fine folks at  Ink and Arrow fabrics.  In fact this is from their brand spakin' new Junebee...

Some of you might have seen it back when it happened and others will just be reading about it now. But when the BBC picks up on a story about quilters in American acting badly you know that things have gotten very out of hand. For those totally out of the loop I am...

While I will always have Flatter by Soak in my sewing room I am finding that I use it more and more up in my closet!  At this point I have given up and have double bottles! Summer is here and with that summer clothing that looks it's best when it get special care....

Now don't shoot the messenger but, are you ready for the holidays yet? And no, I am not talking about the 4th of July, I am talking about the winter holidays, you know  Festivus, Hanukkah, Christmas, Yule, Festival of lights, Kwanzaa  and on. Yeah I know, you just dug...

We still have wonderful things to share from Spring Quilt Market and one of those is a fast rising star in the paper-pieceing world  David Gilleland of Vectorquilts.com.  The first thing you will notice about David is his deep Southern drawl and then you will be...

Hello????  Where did the first part of the year go? Blink Blink Blink and here we are  getting ready to launch into the the second half of 2017 - amazing and a little bit scary since it feels like just yesterday  I was making the New Year  "goals list" for things I...

I have been warned that a quilting blog is a terrible place to talk about depression but since I have also wandered into other hot button topics such as  of sex on quilts and the flagrant use of the Instant Pot I think it is pretty safe to say that I don't take all...