by Maddie Kertay | Dec 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
What an amazing celebration this has been!!!! So many amazing contributors, comments and excitement! Wrap that around the fact that we rocked this giveaway right through Chanukah and Christmas day and you know it has been CRAZY!!! So after rescuing over...
by Maddie Kertay | Dec 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
I know a lot of wonderful quilters who make amazing quilt tops and then stop. The thought of quilting their own quilt paralyzes them but really it needn’t. With just the investment in a walking-foot for their machine basic and not so basic quilting can really...
by Maddie Kertay | Dec 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED – GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE! Sometimes you just get lucky. I totally did when at market a few years ago I met Linda Nitzen from Sizzix. She introduced me to a brand I knew well from paper and jewelry crafting** but...
by Maddie Kertay | Dec 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
The word quilter is gender neutral, much like the word nurse and yet if you pull a google image search for either of these people you will find photos of a whole lot of middle age white women (MAWW) and the occasional porn star in a skimpy get-up doing...
by Maddie Kertay | Oct 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
Normal, such a funny word with a different meaning to each and every person who utters it. My everyday normal was that of being a mother, a wife, a quilter and oh yes, and by the way – bisexual. (Yes, there are bisexual and gay quilters out there, we are not...
by Maddie Kertay | Oct 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
WE HAVE A WINNER… SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM TO SEE!! So I have total bone to pick with modern sewing… this whole GREY thing.. ( or GRAY if you must)… Modern quilters are ALL ABOUT the grey, but they did not invent the love of it. I have been loving this...
by Maddie Kertay | Aug 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
GAH!!!!! the days are slipping by and we are 10 tickets from sold out for the the Wicked Wine Wednesday event at SPOOL. This WILL BE your chance to get up close and personal with the amazing quilts of the Cherrywood Fabrics wicked contest. These quilts are...
by Maddie Kertay | Aug 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
Sometimes we quit to escape. To find that place where pain, obligations and the real world slip off into the distance and leave us with just our inspiration in a world where anything is possible. Steph created Ink Pink Foofaraw as a way to express the best...
by Maddie Kertay | Jun 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
There are a lot of things about the quilting world ( BIG Q QUILTING) that give me hives and there are times I wonder why I put up with this big circle-Jerk of an industry but then I remember that past those in that circle I sure as heck love the holy hell out of a...
by Maddie Kertay | Apr 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
There are 50 ways to leave your lover and there are equal that many ways to produce a quilt that is totally out of square. Hills and valleys, friendly borders and bias backlash to name just a few but I am not going to talk about any of them today. What I am...
