Basically Badass

won·ky /ˈwäNGkē/ Adjective Crooked; off-center; askew. (of a thing) Unsteady; shaky: "sitting on wonky stools".   While some people  live for precision that would make an IRS agent weep I am a lover of the wonky, the off balanced, the creatively free. Perfection...

Chattanooga Quilts is a Jewel Box of a Quilt Shop I was lucky enough to find some time to meet a darling new friend of mine Ms. Margo Clabo for lunch and  a tour of her local quilt shop Chattanooga Quilts which is actually located  in historic downtown Ooltewah, TN...

Today I welcome Mandy Leins an amazing mother and totally BadAss Quilter  to share with us her experience in taking a class with the ohhh sooo talented Denyse Schmidt. I think we can all safely say that we are jealous and it would be easy to hate her.. but she is just...

Longarm Lust- You know you have it when you spend all of  your spare time walking around the house with a tapemeasure figuring out where you might possibly be able to put a 12 foot long machine and all the other things that come with this acquisition! Only after that...

  I have said it before and I will say it again, I am extra thrilled when one of our cover quilters is a man. As a mom of 5 boys ( and a girl!) I so want  my kids to have all the opportunities that are out there and one of them is to quilt without bias or...

  Do you have a quilt in you that you are ready to create and show to the world? If so this is news you will want to hear. It is with great excitement that I announce the first BadAss Quilters  quilt exhibition has been planned for September 2014 as part of the...

  My darling friend Ebony Love wrote a powerful post on the topic of quality and  sewing in the  quilting/fabric industry.  Her post is getting a lot of buzz. Mostly support with a few catty comments thrown in for good measure.  She dared to go a place a lot of...

Wow.. so far I have barely told you about day one, but let us press on to day two! This is where I want to tell you about a lady that saved my skin ( more on that in a moment)  at Quilt Market, she is not only loverly but has an amazing new line of...

Quilt Market Crazy   Edit: #18 Lynne McFern you are the winner of the fat quarter bundle! Please contact me by 8:48 pm Sunday the 26th to claim your prize! It is Monday and I am home from a whirlwind trip to Spring Quilt Market in Portland OR.  I left out on...

Perfect Circles for Quilting and More! * Yep, moving more content over here to BAQS..  bear with me if any links are a bit wonky for a moment. Circles are very popular right now in the sewing and quilting world but they can be sort of bear to make unless you know...

    She is sassy, classy and more than a bit BadAss-y and that is why I love Stephanie Forsyth and have picked her for my cover quilter this week. This lady pulls no punches and I love it! With a  charming mouth like a sailor on leave and the talent  and wit...

Sometimes plans in my head don't actually work out when it come to fabric and sometimes my lack of a plan bites me in the ass. In either  case I am stuck to figure out how to either save a project or if I want to scrap it. Truth be told I rarely scrap a project...

I am a girl who likes her bags and am always on the look out for the perfect bag to tote around my quilting and sewing and I think I have found it. Even better is that this pattern was created by one of my favorite rising sew-stars Jodi Bonjour of SewFearless fame.  I...

You would think it would get old.. another week, another new quilter who does amazing work... Yah, you are right.. No way!.. and again another week and another amazing quilter.. YES! This week I am thrilled for you to meet Joy Voltenburg. Joy has been quilting since...

Today I am really excited to be sharing  with you  the first of many sewing machine reviews by BAQ's that you know and love.  I know that when I am thinking about a new machine the first thing I do is talk to my friends about what they are using and loving ( or not...