One Little Piggy Went To Market

I bet you'd all like to know how my first business venture went :)

Wednesday at 4pm I was all set up at the market and the 4 hours till 8pm went by really quickly, mostly because a few of my work colleagues heeded my call and came by to look and chat. I also met a few nice people at the market and chatted with them. It was a really nice social time!

I learned so much about selling at a market venue... next time I'll have a light chain wrapped around my stall! The light was quite dim at the market, almost like at dusk, when you lose contrast. There were a lot of people who simply walked by, looking at the booth before me, then across the aisle, then at the booth after me, and missed my spot entirely!!! It was a strange sensation to watch that. I was thinking I should set up a trip line across the aisle to get their attention :) Then I could have walked over all concerned and said: Oh, here, you should get this quilt, it'll make you feel better, hahahaha!

Here I am in all my glory *grins* Can you tell how excited I was???

And, did I sell any quilts??!!

Well, I sold one, the Robots Quilt, near the end of the day, to a colleague of mine. I felt bad at first, thinking he might have felt pressured to buy it, but you know, over half the people looking at my quilts were colleagues, and they didn't buy, so I guess he really wanted it. He seemed pretty excited, anyway :)

I also had a couple of market people interested in quilts, and they now have my card to check out my work online where they can look at all the baby quilts currently for sale. I had some exposure, anyway, and I got some great ideas about re-marketing the quilts in more versatile ways. For example, one of my colleagues said I should make some quilts for adults in the same size (30"x40") as lap quilts for the office, because so many offices have problems getting the heat just right, and some people are always cold, anyway. Or they could be used in cars, for trips in the winter time, keep the legs nice and warm :) So I'll give that some thought - I have felt a bit limited in my fabric choices, only using children's prints for the baby quilts. Not sure what I'd call them though. Small quilts sounds blah. Mini-quilts means something else, really miniature. Still working on that one - any input?

Triplets!

I have some news!!!

I managed to get a spot at the Farmer's Market to sell my quilts today and I've been spinning in circles since I found out on Saturday, getting ready for the big event!

I decided 6 quilts for sale is not enough, so...

I made two more on the weekend :) There both floating coin patterns like the burgundy one I've made before (see side bar) and I had the 'coins' already cut out - very convenient!

Version 2 (after version 1 in burgundy): Moss Green


Version 3: Navy


I think this is the first time I've actually repeated an exact pattern - gosh, it goes a lot faster without figuring out the measurements!!!

*Grins*, now I have triplets of this quilt:



So, please keep your fingers crossed that my first business venture is successful!

I have two more quilts that are ready apart from the binding, namely the batik 9-patch and the rainbow stacked coins (see side bar). I'll blog about those later this week! The quilting - especially on the batik quilt - turned out just wonderful!

I'm so excited, I'm hopping on the spot!!!!!!!!!!!!!