Amazing things can happen

Back in July, while we were on vacation, something amazing happened.  You know I have two Etsy shops, one for my finished quilted items and another for my patterns (which are only .pdf's).  Links to both shops are on the right side bar.   I wasn't checking my pattern shop daily, I mean we were on vacay;)  But one afternoon I checked and there were a few messages from customers who were having difficulty downloading their purchased pattern.  Upon further investigation on my part, one pattern was selling tons!  This one, The Snow Dudes.  I am so glad I checked that day so I didn't keep anyone waiting to download their pattern.  It was only a few hours into the rush of buyers.

This has never happened before, after helping those people who were having problems I asked a few of them how they happened to find my shop.  A couple responded that on some FB group someone posted their finished runner and linked to my shop as they were all so excited about it!!  But it seemed they didn't know which group, so I never discovered how it all happened.  I would love to have heard all the chatter!!!! So within a few days over 80 patterns sold of The Snow Dudes!  There were more that trickled in but I stopped counting at 80.  I am still flabbergasted:0

Flash forward into early August and I got an email from a gal who works for a quilt shop in Texas called Fabric Fanatics.  They wanted to know if they could purchase my patterns and make kits up.  What, another amazing thing.  But to be honest I have never done anything like that before and wasn't sure how to approach it.  But I talked to another gal who has worked with them in this manner and after that I felt good about it.  So they bought 30 patterns consisting of several different ones.  

Now September is off to a great start!  An Etsy customer purchased 3 runners on Friday and then asks me if I would consider taking an order for 14 runners!!  She has two nieces getting married later this year and wants to give them each 7 runners with various Holiday themes.  Holy cow!  Why yes indeed I accepted the order!  I have two of them done already. 

Thank you for letting me share my amazing news with you!  Happy Labor Day my quilty friends.  I will be doing a little sewing and a little baking today.  I have two table runners on my design wall for today.  And soon I will be working on my idea for Hello Fall blog hop which starts September 21st.  And then I am participating in From The Heart blog hop in October also. 

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Fall into Winter

As usual I am jumping from one season to another and back again!  The first craft show of the season is done.  I know some of you will ask how it was.  While not fabulous it was pretty good, all of my snowman table runners sold at this show.   One of the other items that sold was my Christmas S swirl table runner.  So I came home and whipped up two more. They, along with lots of other items were delivered to another craft show yesterday.  That show starts on Halloween and goes through mid November. 

Oops, when I made these I didn't pay attention to how I laid the two halves together.  Thus, the different curvature of them.  It does not affect their functionality so I left it. 

I've had two cute fat quarters of  brown with modern color leaves for well over a year and just could't decide what to make with them. After seeing the Christmas S swirl runners selling, I decided I should make a fall one.  The brown fat quarters were in the right place at the right time;)

 Isn't it fun with the pop of teal in there.  The brown leaf print has teal leaves although they didn't appear as strong as I would have liked to see after cutting it up. 

I know you have seen my snowman runners many times over, but I have to prove I am getting things done!  Or perhaps it is my way of documenting them for myself:)  These two made their way to the delivery yesterday.

 These are from my Tilting Trees pattern which I used to have on Craftsy.  They let me keep my shop but they deleted all my patterns but one. So I still have Through the Window pattern on bluprint.  But I am looking into opening up a second Etsy shop with only my patterns.

This is also one of my patterns, Three Snow Dudes.  I made two of these, one for the upcoming craft show and one went into Etsy last night.  They were identical and I didn't remember to get a picture of them together.  Oh shoot, I didn't get a photo of my 60 dishcloths I machine knit this last week too!  Yes it was a nose to the grindstone kind of week, crunch time.  Thankfully my sweet hubby helped out by making dinner for us every night this week.  Another busy day today of finishing up two runners and then getting a start on more snowman ones.   Have a fabulous fall weekend!

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