COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED!!! GOOD LUCK TO ALL AS WE PICK THE WINNERS!
There are a lot of feathers ruffling about in the past few days with closings and changes in the quilt world, as well as challenges as to what it means to be a quilter. So much unnecessary need to align one’s self with just one certain style or dogma, real, imagined or put upon by anybody in the quilting world, and that includes me.
I truly believe that there is room out there for all of us to happily create. I live with the philosophy that the more you have the longer your table should be. We have a lot here at BAQS so our table is endless with room for every quilter who wants to be part.
Of course I have a total soft spot for those who are sassy and more than a little bad-assy but think that BadAssness comes in so many forms with it’s only membership obligation being to live your truth and let others live theirs to the fullest.
I believe in The Democratic Nation of Quilting™ <— pay attention there; it is going to be a thing!
We are the BadAss Quilters Society™ and we believe that quilting is a democratic pursuit and is open to anyone who wants to create. We are not bound by any style, stitchy dogma or rules that set unintentional or restrictive boundaries on creativity.
You are welcome here. One of more than 16 Thousand …. Let the giveaway begin!
Today we begin our celebration of 16 Thousand members of BAQS. We thank our sponsors for their endless support and we encourage those who are leaving a comment to enter the giveaway to also click some of the sponsor links and take the time to say thank you to them!
Aurifil – Our Grand Prize Sponsor! For our Grand Prize Winner a gorgeous custom storage case filled with one of each color in the Aurifil collection. A swoon-worthy gift to say the least!
Generation Q Magazine – A creative force in the quilting world with fresh content in every issue. They have given us issues for all the winners!
Sue O’Very – Designer Patterns and embroidery that make the creative life even better! A gorgeous selection of patterns for each winner
Persimon Dreams – Host of Project Quilting Stretch your quilting mojo with Kim as your inspirational guide. You will fall in love with her Dresden Neighborhood pattern, one for each winner.
Sam Hunter – Hunter’s Design Studio Patterns for everyone from the beginner to the quilter looking for a challenge. Ignite your stash with a 10 HDS pattern package (her latest releases) for all of our winners!
Paula Reid – Batts in the Attic Domestic Machine quilting guru Paula Reid has a full weekend of education in a box for each of our winners!
Martingale Publisher of on-point quilting and sewing books, not to mention the publisher of the newest book that in which I am a contributor! 1 book copy for each of our winners!
Villa Rosa Patterns Perfectly collectable patterns with options for everything from charms to yardage. Inspiration for every quilter and a whole pack of patterns for each of our winners.
Fiber on a Whim Supplies and inspiration for the out of the box quilter! This stuff rocks!!!!
Red Bandana Lights Have an amazing machine that does not give you enough light? .. The Red Bandana light rig in going to be your favorite new thing! One for each winner!
SPOOL – Sassy Southern Sewing. $250 gift certificate for the Grand Prize winner and 3, $150 gift certificates for the runners up!
To enter the giveaway is simple… you will leave a single comment answering the question – Will you be going to any sewing retreats or Quilt Shows this year? Please tell us just a bit about that.
Our winners will be drawn on August the 14th and the winner’s announced that night on the BadAss Quilter Facebook page. Winners must check in within 24 hours …. you snooze you lose! If any winners do not check in we will redraw on August the 17th.
Ready???? Let’s do this!
I am going to a local quilt shop retreat in November. No more shows this year, but next spring I have QuiltCon, AQS Daytona, and Original Sewing Expo!
I plan on attending the Sew Crazy (Lapeer, Michigan) retreat in September and attending the Grand Rapids AQS on Thursday along with my daughter. I can’t wait.
I’m done with retreats for 2016, but I’m heading to QuiltCon East in February (my first time!), and my local guild’s retreat in May.
What a great group! I won’t be doing any retreats this year, but did go on a shop hop with my quilt group. Love the name! My sewing studio is almost done. Cant wait to get to use my new machines
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I have never been to a quilt retreat so that makes me a virgin, right? I retreat to my sewing room every day to quilt. Sometimes I am still in my pajamas at 3 in the afternoon and my dog is sitting in the front hall whining for attention. There have been times when I have gone months without sewing but currently I have Obsessive Quilting Disorder and I am just enjoying it!
I plan on attending a quilt retreat in September, in Temecula CA, as a guest of a friend who belongs to the guild putting it on.
I am hoping to go a a Quiltfest Oasis in Palm Springs in October, and Road to California in January 2017.
Just finished the Seven Sisters Quilt Show in California. Will be going to the Pacific International Quilt Show in October. Going on a bus with a bunch of crazy quilters. It is always an interesting and innovative show. Followed by wine and chocolate on the way home.
Congratulations on the milestone! I am planning to enter one local quilt show, but no retreats.
Um heck yeah on the quilt shows. Sadly, no retreats but thankfully I have an awesome family that allow me to sew at home when I want and even help me scope out quilt shops when we are out and about. Love the no rules rule!
Hoping to do a getaway retreat with my sister and a friend or two. Already did annual trip to Paducah. Love that town as much as the AQS show! Great eating…biggest frog legs I’ve ever had…love little shops, this year’s fave new one is Farmer’s Daughter Soaps.
Southwest Statler Retreat in Oct, Temecula Rockin Bobbins In Feb, Road to California in Jan.
Love retreats and shows.
I’m hoping to go to the Pacific International Quilt Festival in October and maybe a road trip to “Quilts In The Garden” in Livermore CA this September. Congrats on such a huge following….. well deserved!
AQS in Chattanooga this September. Since the class I signed up for lost it’s teacher to unexpected surgery, DH & I will have a fun day in town on Wednesday and see the show on Thursday. If I get my way, we will be doing a quilt shop hop including a visit to Spool as he loves the shop!
As a new transplant from California I hope to make it to a retreat in October with Granny B’s sewing group. Otherwise it’s all about finding the shops and exploring the quilt world here.
No retreats unless I lock my door and stay hidden. Use my stash
We’ve been to several local quilt shows (northern CA) and national and international (Pasadena/modern and Santa Clara). Shows are always inspirational; design, skill, color play, creative bravery all take-aways.
Retreats are my time to use that inspiration and for my inner creative juices to come alive. The sharing and skilled 1-1 teaching that always happens combined with the quiet time to sew makes retreats a necessary part of my quilting journey. Colleen Granger’s are the best.
I will be attending the AQS here in Chattanooga for the third year. It is great to see other’s fresh ideas in quilting.
I wish, but no quilting retreats or shows for me this year. I have about three more years before the kids are grown and out of the house and I’m able to go off and spend days away.
The local county quilting show is the next show I’m going to. Not sure if I will have a quilt back from the quilter in time to show. My brother is nagging me about MC Escher, so I may look up Jinny Bayers shop. And I’m thinking real hard about Chatanooga. Planning a trip to Hawaii in Nov. and while there going to visit with a quilter there.
I’ll be going to the QuiltExpo with Nancy Zieman (the most BadAss of us all!).
There’s an awesome new retreat here in Madison called Modern Stitching Affair that I want to go to but it’s a little rich for me right now. (That trip to Italy and France this summer kind of did me in, budget-wise – but somehow I found the $$ to buy the fabric for my next quilt!)
Love the BAQS philosophy!
I will definitely be going to a couple of shows. I have a quilt in a big show for the first time this year. So excited.
In October attending a retreat at Sun Mountain Lodge in Winthrop, WA. Contact Megan at Sun Mountain. Beautul, inspiring setting. Fun, imaginative attendees!
I’m not big on retreats, I’m quite content working alone in my studio. I do try to get to shows a couple times a year though. (I tried commenting earlier, and it never showed up. Hopefully it will work this time.)
I host retreats in October & May in a beautiful B & B. (Check out Pioneer Ridge B & B!) We retreat for 6 days! I’ve been to 1 Quilt Show, and would like to go to more! It takes a bit of travel plans & flight time since I live in Alaska! I would love to see you Maddie, love your live videos & your Badass Quilters Society!!! Thank you for all you do!!!!!
No retreats. I tend to be a pretty solo quilter because I haven’t found my kind of people locally yet but I am in the process of reaching a friend how to do her very first quilt so we’re making our own club.
I went to the Sisters Quilt Show last month…a yearly event & there are a couple of smaller ones this month in the area. So inspirational! Now I need to get going on my own projects.
I probably won’t be going this year. I just moved to a SE Alaskan island, and haven’t gotten in tune with many retreats anywhere near here the remainder of the year. I have heard that Ricky Timm is going to be further north in 2017, and I plan on getting more details on that.
No retreats for me this year, I did manage to make it to one quilt show. Hubby retired early, so it’s cramping my plans a bit, but we plan on traveling next year and I may be able to sneak the route thru a show venue!
I do not plan to go on any quilting or sewing retreats, but I do plan to host my own solo retreat of my own complete with treats, prizes and quilting! It will be my chance to make real progress on my UFOs.
I go to a Retreat every October in NC. We are a group of quilters that met on the Gardenweb quilt forum, which is now on Houzz. We get together for 4 days and nights and have a ball. I so look forward to it each year.
I’ve gone to 2 shows already, will be attending another one this month. I’ve gone on 1 retreat. Already signed up for 3 retreat in 2017.
Congratulations! I hope to be going to a retreat, before the end of 2016! Unfortunately, I don’t think any shows are in the cards, for me. But that’s okay! I live vicariously through all of you! Happy Sweet Sixteen!
I have only been to a couple of quilt shows, and never to a retreat. I *might* be able to hit one more show this year. My husband has suggested I go to a retreat, but I’m not particularly social, so I’m thinking no to a retreat.
I wanted to attend AQS in Grand Rapids MI, but have to just wait by the computer to see if my Lion King quilt makes in the top for some winnings. I might be going to the Houston Quilt Festival to see the exhibit for “Fly Me to the Moon”. One of my quilts were picked to travel to Houston for this years exhibit. Dr. Frank-n-Furter will be coming to Spool with the exhibit there and I so wish I could make it down that way…but will be sitting close to the computer anxiously waiting to hear the winners!
I will not be going to any retreats this year. Too tough for me with small kids and an unemployed husband. In the past, I have gone to my guilds local retreat which I can attend without staying in the hotel. But they are not hosting at the same location this year.
Shows – yes, I’ll be going to the Mancuso show at Oaks in the fall. Some of my quilts will be displayed with our Guild Exhibition! (yay!).
Yes.me and my friend here at cleveland, are going to gather and iam going to teach them to sew at this saturday, which they not familiar with modern quilt this is my chance to influence people i know to join the club.?..yayyy
I will be going on a wonderful retreat in September in the NC mountains. I’m looking forward to sewing with my dear friends as we have been gathering to do this for the past few years. Retreats are the best!
retreat- no. Some day. But quilt show yes! Just found out this weekend there is one coming up locally next month and it is a 5 minute walk from where I live! How could I not?
I have been to my retreat for the year. Wish I could attend more. I am lucky enough to have a fantastic local retreat RITTER RANCH RETREAT within miles of my home. Great food, great hostess, beautiful and comfortable accommodations.
No plans for attending retreats, but if I get a chance yes I will go!!
Thanks for doing this Maddie!
No retreats this year…but looking forward to Des moines IA AQS show. Always inspiring, and I get hang with one of my besties!
Just went to Common Threads regional quilt show in Wichita in June…great quilts & vendors!
Many Thanks Maddie. I haven’t scheduled any shows or retreats yet this year. A Quilter’s Gathering is a fantastic yearly show here in NE I try to get to.
My ASSES and I are doing our own retreat at the end of September. Can’t wait! I also attended one of Judy Neimeyer’s retreats earlier this summer. Awesome! I hope to go to the International Quilt Festival in Houston in November.
I am bound to jazzy chair this year, sadly no shows or retreats for me, but next year will be much better! I see my shows through wonderful FB groups and postings, learn from postings, you tube and articles. Hope this counts!
After 28 years quilting alone and with no friends that sew or quilt, I recently decided to get involved with a guild. They offer a retreat on the Cape every fall and I’m very excited to join the fun this year!
My quilting girlfriends and I try to attend all the local quilt shows every year. As far as big shows, PIQF is in October and we never miss it! My BFF and I just came back from a Crabapple Hill Retreat in Washington state (we live in CA). We visited lots of LQSs both going and coming home. Great time! And, in November, I will be attending a Vintage Spool retreat in Danville, CA.
I just got home from our annual retreat in Paducah! 6 of some of the greatest ladies I have ever met via the internet. We try to meet once a year but are seriously looking to make it happen twice a year. We come from Connecticut, Mississippi, Iowa, Arkansas & Louisiana.
I will attend a mini retreat later this year with my local quilt group also.
No quilt shows on the calendar for me this year, but looking forward to my first Modern Quilt show in Feb. 2017. QuiltCon East, Savannah, GA. Until then, I’ll be at-home retreating,