New shop on Folksy

My first visit to the Birmingham NEC today for the Festival of Quilts. Beyond excited. Will deliver my report tomorrow. Must keep credit card handy. You can never have too much material!

What a terrible couple of years we have endured. Never have I been so grateful to have a lovely hobby to keep me busy and engaged. Thank heavens for Royal Mail also delivering fabric and wool to keep me going. I also had to take Brexit into account when deciding where to sell my items….

We are all experiencing huge changes to our everyday lives due to this awful virus. I am able to continue sewing while self-isolating. I am so lucky to be in this position and can even get fabric delivered as usual. I have suspended my Etsy shop for the time being, but will have lots of…

Little did I imagine that almost a year on we would still be in lockdown! I have not had to altar the way I sell my goods too much since collections were not impacted – but that was before we left the EU and the USA increased their postal charges significantly. I decided that chancing…

It’s been an interesting 6 months or so since I first opened a shop on the British Folksy site. I was really wishing it would be a success and that I would have as much business as from Etsy, but sadly this not happened. I cannot quite put my finger on why sales did not take…

Forgive me but I feel the need to let off steam. I am always delighted when a customer contacts me with a request for a custom order. I may be naive and too trusting but I usually undertake the job without asking for a deposit. I assume that if the order backfires I will always…