Perkins Dry Goods

I was just over at Pat Sloan’s blog reading about the business of quilting.  I thought she did such a great job of describing things that I wanted to share the link.  Click here to go to Pat’s blog.

That got me thinking about where I started with all of this Quilt Biz too.  I had dreamed of working in a quilt shop but with a day job and little kids, the timing was always off.  Evenings and weekends were family time, and also the most common times that shops needed help!  One day in August of 2000, I was talking to Wendy Fedie who owned the Wayzata Quilting Emporium. She offered me the chance to try my hand at teaching a quilting class.  A one or two session class I could do, even if it were an evening or weekend.  That was the beginning of it all and that’s where my Four Patch Fancy pattern came into being – as a class called Table Runner Basics.  It is still a popular pattern!