Business
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
So… a not-so-funny thing happened a few weeks back when I was oh-so-close to being finished with the Sling Along pattern. I was clipping along on a Saturday afternoon, when all of a sudden the thread guide on my sewing machine just…. fell off. No problem, right? Well it shouldn’t have been anyway. After all,…
Read More15 Years of StudioKat Designs: 3 Things I’m Proud About
So… in a recent post I told you that 2018 will be our 15th year in business as an independent pattern designer and purveyor of custom zippers & hardware and since I’m grateful to be a entering this big anniversary year as a small business owner, I’ve created a three-part series about the 15-things I’ve…
Read More15 Years of StudioKat Designs: NINE Things I’ve Learned
So… I’m not normally a person who takes time to stop and appreciate accomplishments, whether they’re large or small, so for the past 14 years I’ve celebrated the birthday of StudioKat Designs with only nominal recognition, (“Oh, that’s right, it’s today!”), and then just plowed ahead to the next task rarely taking a moment to…
Read MoreAsk Kat: Why are Some Patterns Retired?
So… do you ever wonder what criteria we use to decide if and when a pattern is retired? At times it probably seems like a random choice because even though we’ve retired fourteen of our patterns, we certainly haven’t retired them in the order in which they were published. As a matter of fact the…
Read MoreAQS Quiltweek Paducah 2018: The Good & the Disappointing
So… now that the 2018 version of AQS Quiltweek Paducah is in the books, its time for our show report where we tell you what we loved about this show and also what we didn’t… shall we say… love! And of course anytime one talks about this quilt show, one MUST include the town itself…
Read MoreThe HOM Contests- The End of an Era
So… way back in April of 2008 we began a monthly tradition that has continued to this day… our Handbag of the Month Contest. We’ve included the pictures of each bag candidate along with a short writeup in our Newsletter as well as a monthly Blog feature, and individual posts on Instagram and Pinterest. But…
Read MoreThe Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival – the Highlights
So… we’re back from our very 1st MAQF (Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival) and most of you know that we’ve waited several years for the chance to vend at this show and you know what??? It was well worth the wait! But here’s the deal, you might remember from a recent post that the booth we were…
Read MoreThe StudioKat Designs Group Page (on FaceBook)
So…. we’ve started something new a couple of weeks ago. It’s a private FaceBook page for our customers and I guess the obvious question is…. WHY???? And here’s the thing… there’s more than one answer to this question, so here goes…. 1- Facebook has once again changed their algorithym. What does that mean? Well… even…
Read MoreOur Goals for 2018
So… in a recent post, I told you about some of the things that worked well for us this year, as well as some of the things that didn’t quite go as I had hoped. And now, with our 2017 assessment completed, I’m ready to detail our goals for the new year, 2018. 1) Our…
Read More2017: What Worked & What Didn’t
So… 2017 is almost over, so it’s time for us to sit down and do a long, hard, look at what we did right over the course of the last 12 months, as well as what we didn’t do quite as well as we had hoped. so here’s how things went this year. First- the…
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