by Maddie Kertay | Apr 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
A challenge for the Skully lovers! Welcome to the BadAss to the Bone Black and White Challenge! The rules are simple. To compete you must purchase a BadAss Black & White Skully Challenge Bundle*. CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE THE BUNDLE Please note that this first**...
by Maddie Kertay | Apr 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
Today I answer the question about working with templates when the size of your template and the area you need to quilt don’t match. It is all about developing your evil 1/4 inch eye I have to admit this one is a run-away train that I am sprinting...
by Maddie Kertay | Apr 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
You can find Chillingsworth in the Bad To the Bone section at SPOOL (click) Like the joke where the person asks how to get to Carnegie Hall and the answer given was “practise, practise, practise”, quilting is much the same. There is little way...
by Maddie Kertay | Mar 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
Last fall I was over the moon with excitement that BAQS had the very distinct honor of being the first to show off the Wicked collection of quilts during and evening event at SPOOL. And while the quilts are on tour not everyone will get to see them so that...
by Maddie Kertay | Feb 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
So I bet if the title of the post did not get you over here the graphic did… right? I mean what the hell could I be talking about? The BackStory “Real feminists don’t quilt” or so I was told. This line was delivered in a...
by Maddie Kertay | Feb 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
All the signs were there but I chose to ignore them…. The love of mixed media Never coloring in the lines Shunning patterns in favor of doing my own thing (honestly they read like insurance forms to me) Not caring about the quilt police rules.. 1/4 inch,...
by Maddie Kertay | Jan 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
She is touching my quilt! Please welcome back Lori East as she takes us through the next step – Giving your quilt a good look over. This is the part that makes people really nervous but is totally critical to the process and it can’t and should...
by Maddie Kertay | Jan 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
Ah the mythical unicorn topic of the quilt world – Quilt Appraisal. I hear more woo-woo advice on this topic than I can to shake my vibrator at ( Yeah I said that.. I could have said stick but that would have been sooooo boring!) so I thought it was...
by Maddie Kertay | Jan 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
Owning a quilt shop gives me a unique view into the lives of quilters and what they are trying to do with their work. In the past few months I have been hearing more of our customers talk about wanting to give art-quilting a go so the fact that I am part of...
by Maddie Kertay | Dec 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
We are missing one of our prospective winners and per the rules of the celebration she is past due for checking in. I can’t even begin to say how much I hate this. I know she is going to be disappointed when she finds out what she gave up and yet the...
