Tuesday, October 13, 2015
TWISTED TAILS
Here's a 2 x 2 that I made for my parents wedding anniversary. It's called "Twisted Tails". I saw the quilt at the River Country Quilt Show we attended this year. It was attributed to LaVerne Roy. I think the design is great.
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Saturday, October 3, 2015
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT OUR BUISNESS
We are reluctant to have to announce this but find it necessary. We need to make some changes to our barn quilt business due to it taking up all the time I have aside from my regular day job. Our business has grown greatly over the past three years and become almost more than one person can handle.
So, starting the end of December, we will no longer be taking custom orders for barn quilts. We will still be making them but we will be selling only what we have from our inventory. This will allow us to free up some time for other things that we’ve been putting off.
We want to build up the inventory thru next year and have a lot of different designs and colors to choose from ranging from 8 inch to 4 foot square plus our two “Welcome” barn quilt sizes. We will be eliminating the 6 and 8 foot sizes due to storage. We have a good record of what is popular and have many new ones we would like to make. We will be posting what comes available on Facebook and also continue to list our sale items on our blog.
We have already had to cut off our Christmas orders as of Sept. 30th and will finish all the non-Christmas orders we have and continue to get thru the end of December but, after that, will not be accepting any more. We’d like to try this thru 2016 and see how it goes. Maybe, if all goes well, we might be able to resume taking orders at some point be we hate having to have people wait 4-6 months to get their orders. That’s just too long.
By making these changes it’s possible that we might be able to increase the number of events that we set our booth up for next year. That would be great, but if not, we WILL at least be setting up at the Prairie Land Heritage Steam Show the end of September and the River Country Quilt Show the end of July. Both these events are in Jacksonville Illinois.
We thank all our past customers and hope you will continue to think of us when you’re looking for a gift or a barn quilt for yourself. We may have the size, price and design that will be what you’re looking for.
Mark & Pat Bentley
So, starting the end of December, we will no longer be taking custom orders for barn quilts. We will still be making them but we will be selling only what we have from our inventory. This will allow us to free up some time for other things that we’ve been putting off.
We want to build up the inventory thru next year and have a lot of different designs and colors to choose from ranging from 8 inch to 4 foot square plus our two “Welcome” barn quilt sizes. We will be eliminating the 6 and 8 foot sizes due to storage. We have a good record of what is popular and have many new ones we would like to make. We will be posting what comes available on Facebook and also continue to list our sale items on our blog.
We have already had to cut off our Christmas orders as of Sept. 30th and will finish all the non-Christmas orders we have and continue to get thru the end of December but, after that, will not be accepting any more. We’d like to try this thru 2016 and see how it goes. Maybe, if all goes well, we might be able to resume taking orders at some point be we hate having to have people wait 4-6 months to get their orders. That’s just too long.
By making these changes it’s possible that we might be able to increase the number of events that we set our booth up for next year. That would be great, but if not, we WILL at least be setting up at the Prairie Land Heritage Steam Show the end of September and the River Country Quilt Show the end of July. Both these events are in Jacksonville Illinois.
We thank all our past customers and hope you will continue to think of us when you’re looking for a gift or a barn quilt for yourself. We may have the size, price and design that will be what you’re looking for.
Mark & Pat Bentley
Thursday, October 1, 2015
GOOD TIME AT THE STEAM SHOW!
We had a great 3 days at the Prairie Land Heritage Steam Show and here are some pictures to prove it. We combined our booth with one of our daughter Sam's and tried to make it as appealing to the public as possible. I think it turned out nice and we had some good contacts, got some orders and sold some inventory. It was a fine, but tiring time!
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