by Maddie Kertay | May 8, 2015 | Basically BadAss
{Settles in with a Rum and Coke} So, how was your week? I hope it was amazing and full of all the things in life worth getting out of bed for. Around here we are getting ready for Spring Quilt Market. For those not in the know, Quilt Market is a 2x a year industry...
by Maddie Kertay | Apr 23, 2015 | Basically BadAss
Holy crap I am watching this month speed by faster than the freaking gray hair that keeps re-growing on my chin (hey, we keep it very REAL around here!) soon enough summer will be here and of course you know what that means right??….. The start of The Row by Row...
by Maddie Kertay | Apr 20, 2015 | Basically BadAss
My life is full of the most amazing people and today I want you to get to know yet another of them – Frank Palmer – Quilter and total BadAss! I had a chance to visit with Frank about a million little things and some big ones as well… grab a cup of...
by Maddie Kertay | Apr 5, 2015 | Basically BadAss
You were SO very careful and yet once again your points are not matching and your quilt block is not going together right and you want to cry. Or maybe you are already crying and have moved on to a drink ( quilting can do that to you sometimes). The fact is that while...
by Maddie Kertay | Mar 30, 2015 | Basically BadAss
No one likes a tale of woe, quilters most of all. For those who have experienced it, there is nothing like that heart-stopping moment when you find that your quilt has been mistreated by the person who was supposed to love it and bring it to life. Today we learn from...
by Maddie Kertay | Mar 1, 2015 | Basically BadAss, Welcome to BadAss Quilters Society
Hi, my name is Maddie and by some people’s yard stick I am a craptastic quilter, I have even been told as much ( yeah I know that really takes some serious lady-balls but it has happened!) I know a scant 1/4 inch but at times choose not to use it....
by Maddie Kertay | Jan 25, 2015 | Basically BadAss
I have been rolling an article around in my head for a while now but have been unsure at best how it would go over since the truth is I am very vested in the outcome. I had kept it under my hat for a while but after reading this article about the deceptive front that...
by Maddie Kertay | Jan 12, 2015 | Basically BadAss
So there you are a helpless babe in the woods. You have just walked into a sewing machine shop (please don’t buy your machine at a big box store) and are confronted with too many machines to count with too many functions, bells, whistles and more that while a...
by Maddie Kertay | Dec 15, 2014 | Basically BadAss
OMG!… here we go, put on your party hats and get your groove on because BadAss Quilters Society has totally “jumped the shark” with this 8,000 celebration! Are you ready to hear about all the amazing gifts that will be giving to FOUR...
by Maddie Kertay | Dec 12, 2014 | Basically BadAss
Well it happened!.. BadAss Quilters Society broke 8,000 ( holy crap! excitement) and now we are deep into furious last minute preparations for the giveaway that will start on Monday Dec 15th. We have a couple of companies that are joining us at the last minute and...