I have the most exciting news! My printed patterns will soon be available in a store near you!
Well, if you live near one of Utah’s 3 Nuttall’s Bernina stores. 🙂 Those of you elsewhere will have to rely on PDF patterns for a little while longer.
I’ve been dreaming of getting my patterns in some brick and mortar shops since I started making them, but I had no idea how to even begin. Lucky for me my aunt offered to introduce me to the owner of Nuttall’s. We went up on Saturday- I brought all my patterns and a huge bag of everything I’ve made up in the past year and a half of pattern planning. (It included a lot of random things I threw in thinking, ‘Well, maybe this will come up while I’m talking to here…’) I showed them to her and she got so excited!
I can’t even believe everything that happened. We were talking while a class was going on in their store, so she asked if I wanted to be introduced as a new pattern designer. And I was I was like, wait? what? Are you serious?! She set me up a little table, laid out all my patterns and softies, and went and introduced me as a new pattern designer to the class of a like 70 women! After the class they had me sit at my little booth and show off all my stuff to everyone there. It was crazy! I wish I’d taken a picture- my crazy surprised face would have been worth capturing.
The response was good and in the end we planned my introduction into the quilting world. First I’ll do my own, solo trunk show at their store May 4. I’ll introduce my patterns, tell my story about how I started designing and get people excited for the classes I’ll be teaching all summer long. (teaching people to sew my own patterns!) I was also invited to share their booth space at the HMQS (Home Machine Quilting Show- a huge quilting show that travels around the country introducing the newest stuff in the quilting world) I feel so official! And completely and totally nervous and in over my head. But it’s the good kind of in over my head.
I’ll post more details as I get them. Until then, rest assured that I will be shaking with nervousness every moment for the next few months!