Archive for March 2022
Eye Candy for April ’22
One of things I love best about designing patterns is to see the amazing things out customers create using our patterns! As a matter of fact, there’s not too much I like better than opening up an email that includes a picture or two of a customer-made bag! And here’s the deal, this month’s selection…
Read MorePPC26: the Bella BiFold Cover Reveal
So… in our last post we had a little fun letting YOU be the designer and choosing which of our bag samples YOU would choose to grace the pattern cover for our 1st new pattern for 2022, the Bella BiFold. Thanks SO much to everyone who voiced their opinion! Pattern design can be rather solitary work…
Read MorePPC26: Help Us Choose the Cover Bag
So… with yet another pattern almost in the books, it’s time to choose the ONE bag sample that will truly represent our new design for the pattern cover! In order to do this, I like thinking about which of our samples would most appeal to our customers… which one would gather the most attention at…
Read MorePPC26: Serious Whimsey
So… in our last post in this series I told you that we were coming to the end of the line for this new pattern, the Bella BiFold, which means it won’t be too long now before before we start talking about “end of the line” type things… like which sample to put on the…
Read MorePPC26: She Who Sews
So… this is the fifth sample I’ve shown you in support of our 1st new pattern of 2022, the Bella BiFold. And guess what? I only have one more sample to reveal after this one before I have to make the all-important decision as to which one will represent this design on the pattern cover!…
Read MoreMid-Atlantic Quilt Festival ’22- the Recap
So… it’s been two years since we’ve been able to vend at a Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival. Yep, due to the Covid-19 virus, our last MAQF event was literally one week before the total lockdown of 2020. That seems like such a long time ago, doesn’t it? A whole lot of well-documented events have happened since…
Read MorePPC26: Feeline Good
So… this is the fourth sample of I’ve shown you during this round of Purse Pattern Chronicles for the Bella BiFold design, and for the 1st time I can honestly say that I totally enjoyed making this particular sample because this fabric was a blast to work with! I’ll tell you much more about this…
Read MoreSeen at Show- MAQF ’22
So… even though I’ve been in business for 18 years, I still get a big kick out of seeing our customers carrying bags they’ve made from our patterns! And what better place to “spy” these customers than at a retail quilt/craft show, right? And even though the attendance at these shows is down considerably right…
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