Basically Badass

To be a BadAss Quilter is to be confident enough to embrace your own style without the need to mock the style of others. To at least aspire to fearlessness in your craft as well as authentic, compassionate and ethical treatment of each other. To be generally opposed...

    I just got back from our monthly trip to the wonderful land known as Ikea.. sadly our trip was to get 80 small metal pegs which someone (ahem) lost so the new shop shelves could not be put together until these little gems were back into the mix. Be that...

  I am searching my memory banks about how I met today's BadAss Quilter and I come up blank.. oddly is seems that I have known her warm smile and big heart forever and yet I think it was just last year that we actually met. Crazy how some people feel just right...

Quilt :   A bed coverlet of two layers of cloth filled with padding (as down or batting) held in place by ties or stitched designs. - Merriam Webster Quilt: An anxiety or exhilaration inducing project that either soothes the soul or shreads confidence depending on the...

  I have always been rather picky when it came to the supplies I use in my sewing room and now with literally 1000's of  products at my disposal I have kept with that  notion about my notions and I am VERY careful about what I sell at SPOOL. I only sell items...

  Have you jumped on the linen bandwagon yet? While possibly one of the oldest fibers known to man it is having yet another renaissance due in large part to the adorable ways that Japanese are producing patterns on  and projects for this versatile  fabric. Linen...

  If you don't know Megan Dougherty it is about time you checked that  off of your bucket list.  While there might not be a million quilting humorists, she is indeed one in a million as far as I am concerned (I suck up to her in this way to let her know my...

  Quilt Market came and went in an amazing blur of people, fabric and notions and I fear that once again I will not do justice to the experience but since I am pretty sure I am going to fail let me just say that as always I was wildly impressed with the amazing...

I am tickled pink to introduce this week's BadAss Cover quilter! Jemellia Hilfiger is not only a fantastic modern quilter but also a kickass seamstress- as evidenced by the amazing Washi dresses and tunics she makes with what seems to be effortless ease! Of course...

I don't think that there is anybody who has not heard - "It's not what you know, it's who you know" - and shuddered. There is just something SO skeezy about that turn of phrase. But what if  we had a huge paradigm shift and thought about how our connections can be of...

"My goal for this book is to provide a project for every room and every space, a project that can be set in a modern or traditional environment, for a tiny baby or that tiny baby's grandmother. Whether it be a clean white room with a hint of something handmade or an...

  As a longarm quilter I no longer baste my quilts so much as I stabilize it while quilting so that I can work in different areas while not distorting others, I  use the floating method for the most part but have been known to use the rails in my time but this is...

    Today I hand over the writer's chair to Erika Mulvenna this week's Cover quilter to let her tell us a little bit about herself and her exciting journey into the world of quilting!.....  take it away Erika...   Hi, I’m Erika, and I’m glad to meet...