Business Cards.........

Earlier this week I started out thinking about and playing with business card designs for the commissioned sewing and quilting that I do.   To this point I've done work based on word of mouth only with and had nothing that I could give out to people who were interested in my services for the future....hence thinking about business cards.

For the designs  used the name of my blog as the name of my business, and what I came up with are shown to the left.   Any ideas on them or what you like to see in a business card?

But after talking the head of my company (I've known her for 9 yrs or so), and listening to what she had to say, I've got some things to think about.   Things like what kind of an image do I want it to have, what kind of connotations do I want the business name to have when people see it for the first time (things like would "The Quilted Snail" tell people that I don't get work done fast because snails are slow moving), what kind of work / business do I want the business to encompass (the commissioned work, designing and selling patterns and so on....), and other questions.

I also need to think about things like receipts for paid work, order forms and so on.    Lots to think about.....some of which I might not need to do if I just keep this as a hobby business.

At the moment I'm thinking I might use a company name like "Designs by Moira" as my company name.   How would that sound to you?

Gratitudes:
1. 2 months has passed at work and I'm still enjoying the work.

2. Time to sew is on the horizon for the weekend.

Final F2F blocks Received.

The final blocks for my month were received this week from my friend Susan.   And they are so much fun.    I especially love the polka dots.  =)

These will be going into American Hero quilts.


Gratitudes:

1. Doc appt tomorrow.....and I'll see if my research online might help lead to the root cause of several of the problems I've been dealing with.

2. The weather is cooling off finally.

F2F blocks received from Kate

Wonderful blocks from Kate were received over the weekend.  these came from Australia and are lovely.  The kangaroo fabric is one that she uses on quilts for military heros from Australia.   Love all of the blocks.

Kate also included a lovely appliqued tea towel.   I look forward to using it.

Gratitudes:

1. Good recipes as I work to overhaul my diet and eat better.

2. Work continues to go well.  =)

Sewing again.

Now that the reunion is over and I'm back home, I've been able to get back to sewing and quilting.   The quilt for the design contest is basted.....but I may have to redo it because I think I forgot to press the top first............sigh...........at least tho I have an idea on how I'm going to quilt it.

Over the last week I've been able to get another couple of blocks designed and sample blocks made of the patterns.   Now to get busy and start working on the patterns for them.  





























I also worked up a bunch of extra blocks that will be used as fillers on future American Hero quilts.



Gratitudes:
1. Eczema is better and totally driving me demented at the present.

2. Have a doc appt scheduled for this Friday to deal with the edema - next up dealing with what I think is low thyroid.

Reunion recap............

Had a great time with my my 40th reunion 9 days ago.    Loved seeing friends from school that I hadn't seen in 30 yrs for the most part.   So thankful tho to be friends with a good number of them through FB.  Did make it to the one quilt store in my hometown and came home with a number of goodies....alright a lot of goodies 'cause they had a sale on precut FQ's.  =)

A few reunion pics are below.  First two are of the four of us who were best friends all the way through school starting in Jr High.  (I'm on the left in first one and the right in the second one.)   The last pic shows all of those that were there from the class of 1976.  =)

Gratitudes -

1. Life long friendships.

2. Beautiful weather for the trip.

New block design..........

Designed another block this past week.  And stayed in a similar profile to the latest two blocks before this one.   Did this because I'm thinking of putting them together into a single quilt and want them all to work together.  =)

The sample I made of the new pattern was done in hot pink, orange and navy blue for the background.    Finished size is 12".

First two blocks in the series were the two shown at the bottom.  With one more design, I'm thinking that I might could come up with a nice lap quilt.

And then write up the pattern to offer on Craftsy as either a full quilt pattern (lap quilt size), or as individual block patterns.    These are all pp'd patterns which makes really nice points.

One thing I'm trying to figure out is how much to price the patterns at for a full quilt pattern or as individual block patterns.   Guess I need to do some exploring online to see what others are pricing them at.   If you were to buy something like this as either an individual block pattern or a full pattern for a lap quilt, how much would you be willing to pay?

Gratitudes:
1. Travel to/from the reunion was good (well with the exception of narrow seats on the plane!).

2. Beautiful weather in Southern CA for the reunion and my time there.