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November Thread School Session 2! And Digital Color Card!
The more you know about thread the better choices you make when it comes to your projects. There was a time when there was just one thread.. it was cotton and everyone used it. But times have changed and we now have more thread choices that "Carter's as little...
Coffee, Accountability and Quilters Community.
Welcome to week two, or the second 5 days of Coffee and Accountability here at BAQS. We are half way done with a 10 day celebration that marks the last public opening of the year for The Private BadAss Quilters Community and the BAQC Accountability Challenge Circle....
Quilters Accountability Circle #1 is Now Open!
UFO's, WIP's and Wtf's seem to be part of most quilters lives. And while it might not merit a Hoarder's Style Intervention many of us lose many hours a month to looking for lost tools, misplaced projects or to just the angst that comes with seeing all we once wanted...
Nipples and Balls and My Trip to Joann’s
Well if the title did not get you here I don't know what would! Welcome to the last week of the Cutter Quilt Countdown! We have covered a lot of projects and a lot of ways to make gifts for the coming holiday seasons with little money and not a lot of time. As...
Thread School at BAQS – Week 1
Welcome to thread school my friends! Don't worry there will not be any tests but there will be prizes! I am very excited to be partnering with the people from Hab + Dash for this whole series! Like that first day of school where you prayed you would not be given...
Cutter Quilt Basket Liner
Basket liners are nothing new but they are a great way to protect the items you store in baskets from falling through the open weave or in the case of large laundry size baskets to protect your clothes from getting caught on the weave. Each basket liner is as...
Cutter Quilt Pumpkins
Wow, last week in September, in fact before the week is out we will be in October and yet the cooler weather has been amazing and my thoughts are firmly rooted in all the fall things including decorating my house and that is where these adorable cutter quilt pumpkins...
A Sewing Solution for Feeling Helpless to Help
Sometimes the problems of the world can feel so damn big and this can leave us feeling so damn small and helpless. We cast our eyes around looking for a hero only to catch our own reflection in the mirror and know that our salvation is going to have to start with each...
Cute and Quick Cutter Quilt Holiday Trees
Week 6.. already over 1/2 way done with our Cutter Quilt Countdown to the holidays! Are you feeling inspired yet.. picked up a few ideas or are you still looking for your mojo that left town on a rail when COVID changed our lives forever? (Yes, while I think life...
Precious Pumpkin Cutter Quilt Swag Project and Giveaway!
Let's face it we are all busy but it does not mean we don't want to make cute and personal gifts for those people in our lives who appreciate such things! This project starts off with some store bought small stuffed wool pumpkins but just about any craft store is...
Cutter Quilt Postage Stamp Style Table Runner – Project #4
Labor Day weekend is always the unofficial start of fall in my life. Time to get out the fall decorations and die of heat stroke as I festoon the front of the house with scarecrows, sunflowers and hay bales. Sure it might still be one jillion degrees here in the south...
Cutter Quilt Countdown Project #3 – Cutter Quilt Pin Cushion and Not Everyone Likes Quilts
Welcome back to yet another week in COVID time.. we are on to project three in the Cutter Quilt Countdown series where we are working our way to the holidays with gifts for all of our BadAss Quilting peeps. I will take moment here to remind you that your time...
Cutter Quilt Countdown and Challenge – Project #2
Last week we made adorable tags with even the smallest bits of cutter quilt scraps and this week we once again utilize smaller pieces that will be a result of large projects that come later in the process! The Project Fall is drawing near and while I don't eat fruit...
My Vagina Does Not Entitle You To A Discount
Last month I introduced The BadAss Quilters Private Community with a founding members launch to 500 BAQSers who requested a "Golden Ticket" for the chance to be a founding member of a new PAID community at $14.99 a month*. 240 or so people took me up on the offer for...
Cutter Quilt Countdown – Cutter Quilt Tags
If you were with us for last week's Facebook Live I spoke about using cutter quilts and how to think out of the box about what to do with these beauties. While some quilts are best left intact there are many torn, tattered and quilts that are no longer functional for...