by Maddie Kertay | Jul 17, 2017 | Basically BadAss
Today we welcome Julie Johnston who is the principal designer at owlydesign.ca. Julie is a sex positive quilt designer who will be ringing in here at BAQS about all things quilty and sexy. What’s that you say.. Quilts and SEX… yep. BAQS is so much...
by Maddie Kertay | Jul 13, 2017 | Basically BadAss
Letting Go Free motion quilting can be a huge hurdle for today’s quilter. We all want to be able to create those fancy, swirling designs on our domestic sewing machines but many of us have no idea how to get started. Some people get through a few, halting stitches and...
by Maddie Kertay | Jul 12, 2017 | Basically BadAss
Do you have a biker in your life…. are YOU the biker in your life? If so I suspect that this fabric might have you dreaming of an amazing sofa throw or cuddly quilt to wrap up under around the campfire this fall. From the artist Jeff Wack, QT Fabrics is now...
by Maddie Kertay | Jul 11, 2017 | Basically BadAss
Do you love great food? I mean really wonderful, worth making, everyone loves it great food? I do … and I search for it everywhere. When I go out to eat I always search for things that I don’t make at home, because quite frankly, no one makes it...
by Maddie Kertay | Jul 9, 2017 | Basically BadAss
I adore vintage linens and hunt them up every place, from antique shops to thrifts and there is very little that will scare me off. While at very nice antique shops most are in pretty good shape you can find some in other locations that while you know they have...
by Maddie Kertay | Jul 6, 2017 | Basically BadAss
Oh how life gets away from us some days… here we are firmly into the first full week of July!.. I am so excited to be welcoming Teri Sontra from Purple Moose Designs onto the BadAss team! Today she is going to be sharing with us a way to get our BadAss selves...
by Maddie Kertay | Jun 30, 2017 | Basically BadAss
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...
by Maddie Kertay | Jun 30, 2017 | Basically BadAss
I stopped sewing when my son died. Like most people who lose a child I was thrown into a world I had never hoped to know and would never wish on anyone. Just days before I had sewn what would be his “coming home” outfit… it might have possibly been...
by Maddie Kertay | Jun 26, 2017 | Basically BadAss
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...
by Maddie Kertay | Jun 25, 2017 | Basically BadAss
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...
