I haven't sold anything via Etsy in a long time, so today I finally decided to close the shop. I've been thinking about it for a long time. I give away many of my quilts and sell more items at the local florist's shop on consignment anyway. Selling can sometimes be stressful - finding a box and getting things in the mail ASAP. I don't like to make quilts with an eye toward what will sell anyway. And lately I've been producing fewer quilts, perhaps because I've been making more complicated ones most of the time.
Paul's sister Pat is due here in the middle of the month, and we have a family gathering a few weeks after that. I'm going to ask her to help me figure out which quilts might be good to give away at that time. I think some of the folks will be driving up so I won't have to mail them. I do want to send one to California after Paul's nephew, who has a new job, moves.
Here is one of my unsold favorites from the shop. I remember making these star blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge every month in 2023 (or was it 2022?). It will make a cozy throw for someone's couch or dorm bed.
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I thought briefly about putting things on Etsy and then never did I heard too many say there are so many out there selling quilts that they can't sell unless they sell them for way under what they are worth and I'm not going to sell one for less than it cost to make it and that is when you don't even consider all the time spent making it - and you need to aim for perfection as you don't want to sell something that has mistakes in it or a lot of chopped off points right?
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