BarbWetzel Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 I took a Baby Quilt that I had just finished to Curves with me on Friday night... and behold.. One of the ladies wanted to know how much I would sale it for. So I went home and finished the binding and in the process of making a lable for the baby..... I will deliver the quilt to my Curves Class on Monday... HOORAY!!! I like it when the money comes in so easy... I will start taking more finished quilts with me that I want to sell. I make all kinds of quilts, but haven't sold too many of them yet... Barb :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenscratch Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 WAY to GO, Barb! That's a great idea. Make lots of baby quilts and lap quilts and take with you. I'll bet you could sell small ones as emergency car quilts in case of snow storms. You do nice work. I'm sure you'll do great. I'm making a prayer quilt for my boss who has cancer. I asked everybody at work to sign a block, not intending to find business; but now several have mentioned that they have quilts to be finished, or always wanted to learn. The school where I work has also asked me to make a donation quilt for Relay for Life that they can sell chances on to raise money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patch Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 What do you do at curves that includes a quilt??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bekah Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 Barb this is wonderful! Congratulations!! and thank you for sharing with us a new way to perhaps bring in the customers and for giving us a glimpse of what can happen when we step out of the box. Teresa, I am glad to see that business is picking up for you. It gives this lonely ole lady hope:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 Barb, isn't it interesting when you bring something in to "show and tell" for either your friends, colleagues or "workout buddies" at curves and then suddenly you generate new business? I don't advertise quilting at work, but I do have a few wall-hanging sized quilts hanging in my office for decoration, and I've received several unsolicited requests to make quilts for the people I work with. I've made a few quilts on commission this way. Barb, best wishes for you in the future! I think you have even more customers now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancingstitcher Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 If you made a quilted purse, you could take it everywhere and draw business. Vicki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 Vicki is on to something! You could design a quilted purse that has ivy leaves on it and an embroidered words "Ivy Corner Quilting" on the purse. Make sure you have a handy pocket on the side that fits your business cards!!! I also recall Linda Steller wears quilt-themed tshirts and generates business that way. Quilted tote bags, quilted jackets, quilted hats, quilted shoe covers......OK, quilted shoe covers might be pushing it a little too far on the extremely psychotic/just plain silly side, LOL, but you know...whatever works! You can be a walkin'-talkin'-quiltin' billboard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbWetzel Posted February 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 Thanks for all of the ideas... I like them. Curves is a place for women to workout... Barb Grant is the lady who runs the Curves location and she is the one that wants to buy the baby quilt. I like the idea of putting IVY CORNER QUILTING on a bag to take along with me... I do pass my Business Cards out all of the time... Thanks. Ladies... You are all great!! Barb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patch Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 I knew what Curves is, but I kept thinking you took the quilt there to use it for something, like an exercise mat, LOL!! I guess not! You are very smart to do show and tell to your non-quilting friends too. Good work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltaholi_518 Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 Here is a shirt I wear all over, especially in the summer, and people ask "What's a Long-Arm quilter?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisas_Stitching_Corner Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 I have another suggestion for making your business more visible. Besides being a newbie longarm quilter I am also a commercial embroiderist. I must Love big equipment since I have both Millie and a single head Tajima at home in my sewing studio "area" (ever expanding). I have been planning on incorporating machine embroidery and quilting - what better way than helping fellow quilters increase their visibility. It can be as simple as a stock embroidery design with your company name added or a professionally digitized logo. I can sew it out onto totes, shirts, jackets, caps - if it can be sewn on, it can be done! A very good friend has a swiftly growing commercial embroidery business with a retail location and one of her tag lines is - "Promote your business- Wear It". It is so very true. If anyone is interested feel free to contact me . Lisa:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewbobby Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 Such a cute shirt. Is it embroidered or printed? I also love embroidery but haven't seen this design anywhere. Did you digitize it? I would love to buy a design of a Millie and make a name tag out of it to wear at my Quilting quild. Does anyone know where I could buy one? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisas_Stitching_Corner Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 I have searched everywhere know for an embroidery design of a Millie or similar but I can't find one. I am toying with the idea of having one custom digitized for myself . I would love to wear it too at the shows and guild meetings. I'll let you know if I decide to go ahead. Lisa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 Check out the graphic cartoon-design that Grammie Tammie has on her web site -- the longarm machine looks a lot like a APQS Millennium...and the "Grammie" looks a lot like Tammie! You can ask her where she got that graphic -- she probably designed it herself (wouldn't surprise me...she's so talented) or she hired someone to design it for her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbWetzel Posted February 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 If you find out where to get that cute T-shirt... Let us all know... It is so cute... and helps with advertisement... I have had the opportunity to share my business card with a couple of new quilters the other day... I am so excited...!!! Barb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patch Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 Caron, LOVE your t!!! Also, have to say this, every time I see the name of this thread I put the emphaSIS on the second word, so it comes out "Took a baby QUILT with me to Curves". LOL!! Ok, gotta go get some work done now.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathleen Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 Lisa, I also have an embroidery machine (not commercial size) and I would like to have the Millennium embroidered on something, let me know if you do get it digitized, I would gladly pay for you to stitch one for me. I loved that t-shirt also! It's a hoot! Maybe we should all wear one to MQS in June... ~Kathy~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Farnham Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 Have you gotten latest issue of Unlimited Possibilities? Inside they had an article on "Onion Jackets". It showed the many jackets and vests Longarmers have made. I was just blown away by some of the things that these ladies had done. I in no way am a seemstress(sp?) but I just had to try one of these vests. Used an old vest of mine as a pattern and just quilted the daylights out of it. The color choices were not that great, and I didn't plan it out very well. Just went for it. It actually worked. Only had to sew up the shoulders and bind it like a quilt. Overall, an easy project and what better advertising than to walk around with a piece of your work on your body. Showed it to the neighbors and I have been asked to make some for them. Just thought I'd share! Happy Quilting! Laura Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 My quilt guild held a class late last year (I didn't attend cuz of my broken foot) where they took regular sweatshirts (cut them down the front) and pieced fabric over the tops of the sweatshirts to create quilted jackets. From the photos I saw, they looked very simple and easy to make, very pretty, too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 Another photo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbWetzel Posted February 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 Caron... Where did you find that great T-shirt..? I want one.... Let me know.. Barb WEtzel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 I know, I want one too...I just looked on Linda Taylor's site and she has one that is okay...Why doesn't APQS come up with a clever little saying on a shirt...we would buy one!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teri Posted February 28, 2007 Report Share Posted February 28, 2007 Ladies, I designed a shirt for longarm quilters. It says, "Make Mine Continuous Line". It is great for advertising and for a work shirt. It's pictured on Columbia River Quilting website. Here's the link: http://columbiariverquilting.com/continuous_line_design_tee_shirts.html The newer ones don't have 2005, as pictured. I take orders as well, at toodevine4 @ aol.com (remove spaces) Please take a look. They are wonderful quality shirts, not a standard "show shirt." I have sold many at Innovations and HMQS in Salt Lake. I hope you like them! It was featured as a new product in Unlimited Possibilities July 06 issue. Teri Devine in Idaho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TinaCollins Posted February 28, 2007 Report Share Posted February 28, 2007 Several years ago, when I was quilting for customers as my only income, I gave my favorite customers a little present- and it advertised my business too. Many piecers like to store their quilts in pillow cases and I often received and returned customer quilts in pillow cases. I bought those plain 100% cotton laundry bags (from Walmart, Target... where ever I found them at a good price, sometimes just a dollar) and embroidered my business name across them. Since my business is called Apple Creek Quilting, I used an embroidery machine applique design of an apple and added my business name to the top with my phone number on the bottom (in a circular array around the appliqued apple) in the largest hoop. My customers carried their quilts in those bags to guild meetings and such... and I got free advertising!! Those bags were such a success, I started to make them for any quilt that was being given as a present by my customer- embroidered with the piecer's name, recipient's name, special date, and occassion on the other side of the laundry bag....with my business logo on the front, of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted February 28, 2007 Report Share Posted February 28, 2007 Cool idea, Tina! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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