Teaching

When I don't blog, I worry that I'm not sharing enough about learning and growing as a crafts business owner. And I know it's been a while since I've shared. For a few weeks now I've been busy reading other bloggers' blogs, checking out other sewers' awesome projects, and visiting other crafters' expert booths and marketing.

Trust me, I've been getting schooled.

A popular, thoughtful, prayerful, and meaningful blog has brought me both weekly joy and tears for the authors' pain. It has given me a new perspective on priorities.

A new sewing friend's project photos have inspired me and helped to show me where my focus really should be...what projects I really enjoy vs. just what will sell. And the sweet ladies at the local Viking Sewing Gallery have (thankfully) been very kind as they painstakingly show me again (and again, and again, and again) what I am doing wrong. 

Did I mention I do alot of things wrong?

Multiple market friends' booth advice has proved invaluable. I was so completely unprepared for the first tuft show booth. I was slightly less unorepared for the second one. Pretty sure in a couple of years, I'll have it down.

So many folks have been teaching me how to "do" tuft over the past few weeks, both knowingly and unknowingly. I hope when I get "good" at this, I can teach someone else.

Don't hold your breath though...