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Handmade BadAss Holiday – Shoe Bags
As promised I am taking some days to give you some freakishly easy projects that make great gifts that can come directly from your stash! ( in my award for iffy accounting I call these FREE projects) Today we are talking some sexy stuff - shoe bags! Just hold on and...
Quilt Shop Confidential – Part Two, A Thoughtful Rally Cry
When I last posted under this title I laid out the issue; brick and mortar quilt shops are disappearing from our hometown landscape being replaced by online mass merchants, and purposeful small time undercutters with little need to make a true profit. Let's not...
Screen Printing with Thermofax
Happy Monday everyone! I am tickled all the shades of the rainbow today to be part of Lynn Krawczyk's blog hop for her new video! Honestly to say it is just a video sells this one short. This is a class in a box. A class you can watch over and over again as...
You Can Have Sex On My Quilt
You can have sex on my quilt, in fact please do. Yes, have hot sex on my quilt or use it for a picnic blanket if you fancy a day at the park. Or better yet let your kids make a fort out of it and play under it with a flashlight and a hidden stash of cheese crackers....
A helping hand..
Hosting page for images that were not uploading right for the B&W challenge.
Mother of Dragons and other Adventures- A BadAss Week in Review
{Settles in with a Rum and Coke} So, how was your week? I hope it was amazing and full of all the things in life worth getting out of bed for. Around here we are getting ready for Spring Quilt Market. For those not in the know, Quilt Market is a 2x a year industry...
Row by Row Sneak Peek – 2015 edition
Holy crap I am watching this month speed by faster than the freaking gray hair that keeps re-growing on my chin (hey, we keep it very REAL around here!) soon enough summer will be here and of course you know what that means right??..... The start of The Row by Row...
Frank Palmer – BadAss Cover Quilter!
My life is full of the most amazing people and today I want you to get to know yet another of them - Frank Palmer - Quilter and total BadAss! I had a chance to visit with Frank about a million little things and some big ones as well... grab a cup of your favorite...
Rotten Ruler Syndrome – Are you a Victim?
You were SO very careful and yet once again your points are not matching and your quilt block is not going together right and you want to cry. Or maybe you are already crying and have moved on to a drink ( quilting can do that to you sometimes). The fact is that while...
A Quilter’s Cautionary Tale – Longarming Gone Wrong
No one likes a tale of woe, quilters most of all. For those who have experienced it, there is nothing like that heart-stopping moment when you find that your quilt has been mistreated by the person who was supposed to love it and bring it to life. Today we learn from...
It’s Ok To Be A Craptastic Quilter
Hi, my name is Maddie and by some people's yard stick I am a craptastic quilter, I have even been told as much ( yeah I know that really takes some serious lady-balls but it has happened!) I know a scant 1/4 inch but at times choose not to use it. I have...
Quilt Shop Confidential
I have been rolling an article around in my head for a while now but have been unsure at best how it would go over since the truth is I am very vested in the outcome. I had kept it under my hat for a while but after reading this article about the deceptive front that...
Sew What? Frank Talk About What you Really Need in a Sewing Machine
So there you are a helpless babe in the woods. You have just walked into a sewing machine shop (please don't buy your machine at a big box store) and are confronted with too many machines to count with too many functions, bells, whistles and more that while a bit...
8,000 Celebration – Here We Go!
OMG!... here we go, put on your party hats and get your groove on because BadAss Quilters Society has totally "jumped the shark" with this 8,000 celebration! Are you ready to hear about all the amazing gifts that will be giving to FOUR very lucky...
Getting our 8,000 Groove Together.
Well it happened!.. BadAss Quilters Society broke 8,000 ( holy crap! excitement) and now we are deep into furious last minute preparations for the giveaway that will start on Monday Dec 15th. We have a couple of companies that are joining us at the last minute and...