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!
No, unfortunately I won’t be going to any retreats this year or next. I have a son who will be off to college, which I’m sure you know is crazy expensive. Maybe I’ll catch an area quilt show. Thanks for the generous giveaway. ;-> Toni Anne
I have been to 1 quilt show this year and am planning to go to another next month. I go to look at the eye candy and shop at the vendors.
I need to find a quilt retreat near me, momma needs some time away. Love this blog, can’t wait to see what you do next
I’ve been a quilter for less than two years but I was able to attend a retreat last October in central Florida. Imagine about 35 Fabric Maniacs in one place! All shapes, sizes and orientations having a blast together. Some of us were up into the wee hours, sewing, laughing and wine tasting in our pajamas. We gathered from all corners of the USA and some from Canada. It was like a large family reunion. I plan to go again in 2017. Need my crazy fix!
Hi, as a member of a subnet of Bad Ass Quilter’s, we coordinated 7 retreats this year. I love that it gives us time to have a blast and get things done. Attending a few regional quilt shows this year and seeing if we can make it to AQS in Chattanooga. Love Bad Ass Quilter’s!
I’m a hobby sewist/quilter so I will not be attending any shows. It is on “to-do” list for the next few years.
The International Quilt Festival in Houston is on my list for this year. I also go to “spontaneity days” at the quilting retreat house in Rockport, Texas. This year has been a bit tough with chemo and all that fun, but I love reading about the BadAss quilters and what is happening with Spool. I hope to see Spool one day too. Just being a part of something larger has given me a lot of fun this year. Thanks to all for being there!
I’ll be at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, busy volunteering and taking a few classes. 🙂 It’s been a family tradition since I was a kid! This year I submitted a quilt to the show for the first time (didn’t make it, but it’s only the beginning!). I’m on the fence about other big shows and retreats – but they all sound amazing, so one day I’ll have to travel for one.
Great giveaway! Tentative plans for a retreat in September, then going to QuiltCon in February! It will be my first QC, so pretty excited.
I will be going to a mini quilting retreat in my home town (very small town) And hopefully to the quilt show in Salt Lake.
None planned but I hope to get to one one if these days
I will be going to the Smocking Arts Guild of America’s national convention in Hampton, Virginia, during the week of September 19. I know that isn’t actually quilting, but I believe that the world of sewists is overlapping to the point where we can lose the “quilting” or “smocking” or “embroidering” labels and just be “creating”. So many of the techniques I have learned in smocking and sewing can be applied to quilting and other handworks. I’m always eager to expand my knowledge base and am thankful for groups like the BadAss Quilters who have room at the table.
I’ve actually never been to a retreat or a quilt show. I KNOW RIGHT?!?!? I would love to go but I’m very nervous since I don’t really know anyone else and I’m a chicken-$#it when it comes to being somewhere where I don’t know anyone – especially overnight!!!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR GRANDSON’S ARRIVAL HOME!!!!
Hi Shannan!
I relate to the nervous feeling when meeting new people in unknown locations but just DO IT! I can almost guarantee that there are quite a few people who feel the way you do in any group. Now I’m in my mid 60’s and really wish I had broken out years ago. No time like the present kiddo!
I would love to go to quilt shows but here in the UK they are very expensive, if it’s between buying a ticket or buying fabric and thread, well it isn’t the ticket that keeps me sewing! Maybe one day I’ll get to go. As for retreats, my sewing room is my retreat. Love your message to the quilters and creators, there’s enough strife in the world, let’s respect each other’s talents whatever they are. Xx
I will be attending Festival in Houston & perhaps one other big show. I’m always looking for good retreats – you guys would be excellent at that! Congratulations on all you’ve accomplished, & thanks because of all you do to make a better (quilting) world.
In September, I’m off to Chattanooga for the AQS Show. Wonderful to live close enough to Chattanooga for a day trip just in case I don’t want to stay overnight. Haven’t attended this show in a couple of years and looking forward to seeing the quilt entries, winners and vendors. Great place to reconnect with folks I haven’t seen in a while.
Yay! I’m totally excited for the giveaways. I will be attending the Boise Basin Quilters Guild show, it’s amazing to see all of the talent quilters have.
Mancuso, Manchester NH
Houston Quilt Festival
I look forward to attending local sewing retreats made available by my modern quilt guild. Congrats and thanks!
Wow, great prizes! Thank you for shedding a light on the industry and allowing us to be the best “us” we can be! I would like to attend a quilt conference, but I live in BC and between the great distance the shows are from me, coupled with the failing Canadian dollar, it might not be possible. Love what you’re doing!
In January I will go to Road to California in Ontario – only my second time there, and already looking forward to it! Went to QuiltCon in Pasadena in February; waiting till it returns to the west coast in 2018.
That vendor line-up is awesome – I’m checking them out next!
You are a bright light in the quilting world, Maddie; keep shining!
I absolutely LOVE this site and glad you/we continue to grow.
These prizes are wonderful and my thanks to the companies that have been so generous, with congratulations going out to all that will be getting them.
I WILL be attending both: quilt shows, one in Kingman and one in Las Vegas. Also one retreat scheduled for October and one in February (right now,lol).
Congratulations to your family on the baby finally getting to come home, let the spoiling begin! Such a special time for all.
Take care & quilt on.
I haven’t found any quilting retreats in my area, but I do meet with my quilting peeps about 8 times a month where we spend time together making quilts for our quilt ministry. BUT – – – in February I will be attending QuiltCon East and I am so excited!!
I’m thinking we need to take a road trip one of these days and come to visit Spool in Chattanooga – after all, it’s only about 1.5 hours away from us!
Leaving for APQS quilt show in Grand Rapids Michigan in 1 hour.
Congrats on 16000 plus peeps strong!
Quilt on.
Love that you’re badass! It’s about time someone stood up for all of that “think outside the box”! Congrats on the 16K+!
I am going to the Ashville quilt show.
Headed to a quilt retreat in the Black Hills of South Dakota in September. These are amazing giveaways!
I would love to go on a retreat but haven’t found the right “fit” for me or a friend to go with me.
I’m going to the AQS show in Chattanooga in Sept (can’t wait to come by the shop again), the Asheville, NC Quilt Show in early Oct, and already went on my quilt retreat for the year with my quilt guild in May – we had a great time.
Whoooooo! I go to many local shows and shops:) Am planning on attending Houston this year after not going for 3 years. Still haven’t made everything I bought last time:) ha ha!!!
Quilt Retreats I am not a big fan of. I love sleeping in my own bed so there is that problem:) I do however attend some that are days only… you go and sew and then go home to your bed and then return the next day. Makes for a better attitude when you get sleep:)
It’s just fun getting together and sewing and solving the world’s problems or adding to them:)
Heading to Cape Cod in October for a quilt retreat with my guild! Can’t wait, it’s gonna be great!!
Heck yeah! I will be taking classes and going to Quiltcon.
I have a friend with a lake home. Each fall she invites a group of us to a week long quilt retreat. This is a great time to get together, work on UFOs, make Christmas gifts, eat great food, and have a drink with friends who understand your obsession. Last year our host started a new tradition of a mystery trip where we travel the area to local quilt, knitting, and junk shops. Can’t wait to go.
So many events – so little time! I’ll be attending my guild’s quilt retreat in October, then I’ll be teaching at a retreat at the end of October. There are many shows in New England to attend coming up – World Quilt New England is next week, then there are lots of guild shows almost every weekend until Thanksgiving. Then I get to top it all off with attendance at the International Quilt Festival in Houston. Woo hoo!
Twice a year I get to attend the WI/MN HeartStrings Quilt project Sew Ins. That’s as close as I get. Would love to attend something longer
A friend and I make a trip to MQX in Manchester NH almost every year. It is great to see what is going on outside our small isolated world of downeast Maine. It’s also a way to shop in person since our “local” quilt shops are 40-60 miles away.
Yes, going for sure to the AQS Quilt Week in Chattanooga in September. So happy to have Quilt Week close by again this year. Retreats? No, not anytime soon. Will just be happy to get back into my own little studio retreat next week.
This was an unusually “quilty show” year for me. MQX and Paducah in the spring and VT Festival of Quilts in June. The only thing on the schedule for fall is my guild show and weekend retreat.
I so wish I could attend a quilters retreat. I used to attend 3 each year but, unfortunately one by one they have disappeared due to lack of participation. And I have moved to western NC now so perhaps I can find a new retreat closer to my new home. Fabulous prizes. I drool over the Aurafil!
Sadly, all my quilting will be either at home or in my imagination, for the foreseeable future. My husband is on hospice (stable at the moment, thank God), and I’m also caring for my mother who is blind and has Alzheimer’s disease. Vicarious quilting is where I am at the moment; however, this, too, shall pass, and I truly enjoy others’ quilting projects in the meantime.
Bless your caring for your husband and mother. Don’t forget to take time to renew yourself each day.
I will not go to any retreats or shows this year – unless there is a show in Charlotte that is very affordable 🙂 This year is part of a really great period of time for me of inward/inside-the-house focus (laser focus actually.) Gotta organize the stash stacks before something falls over and consumes me.
PS: There IS room at the table! Thank you so much for that reminder!
Just went to one this last weekend with my local guild. Plan on another one in October. Usually attend from 3-5 retreats yearly.
I will not be able to attend any retreats,but I will be working on a special quilt for a gift?
In our area, most of the shows and retreats happen in the first half of the year. So for 2017, I’ll be going to my modern guild retreat and to QuiltCon!
I always plan on going to a quilt retreat every year,but I’m my father’s caregiver so that usually gets canceled. I like to go to the three Rivers quilt show in Pittsburgh. I am always amazed at the workmanship on ALL the quilts.
I’ve been going to the same retreat for five years. It’s the weekend before Thanksgiving at a resort in Wisconsin. I can’t wait!
Some day when I grow up (I’m 70years young) I want to be as Bad Ass as Maddie K is!!! I love how feisty you are. How you get your point across in a not so politically correct method. I love seeing those fuddy duddies squirm. Maddie I want to be your friend!
Hi Maddie! What an awesome idea to do this celebration of 16,000! I always attend International Quilt Festival but this year we have 2 family weddings in Louisville, on the weekends before and after IQF…so I’m not sure I can make it. It’s killing me since I have a quilt in the show!! Fingers crossed ;)…
I live in Texas, so International Quilt Festival is on my radar for this year, and I take quitling retreats with my sister-in-laws (a stay-quilt-retreat!)
Wow, amazing vendors! I do attend quilt show classes and retreats. It is a wonderful way to get to know some fellow quilters. I try to take classes on techniques that I have not done before. The retreats are great times to spend with friends old and new. The visiting of new quilt shops is just a bonus!