Last night, I reached the end of my rope!! I decided that today, I would ignore the boxes (that I can't do anything about right now anyways!!) and I'd clear a little space in my room so that I could give my Bernina 730 a "test drive"....
So... what to do?? Well I have some hand-dyed fabric and have been dying to try my hand at one of Ricky Tims' Convergence Quilts... so that's what I did today!! What FUN!! And... he's right... they are addicting!! I completed the first top and have ideas swimming for others... I think I need to live with this one a bit before I'll know how I want to finish it -- borders/no borders... how to quilt it... those kinds of decisions....
The 730 is wonderful!! ... now I need to get out that embroidery module... maybe tomorrow??
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007
Shiisa Quilts is Coming!
I met the electrician at the shop this morning to show him where I wanted the light fixtures and remembered to take the camera with me -- so we finally have some "in progress" pics of the shop!
The first door on the left is the Tech Department aka David's Domain... the mirrored window will be reversed so that customers can see into the workshop.
This is our Bernina and Horn of America sales area. The windows look into the classroom!
A little better view of the classroom...
These pictures show the rest of the sales floor...
Hopefully by the end of next week I'll have some pics that show lots of progress!! It will look so much better when that concrete floor is replaced, don't you think?
The first door on the left is the Tech Department aka David's Domain... the mirrored window will be reversed so that customers can see into the workshop.
This is our Bernina and Horn of America sales area. The windows look into the classroom!
A little better view of the classroom...
These pictures show the rest of the sales floor...
Hopefully by the end of next week I'll have some pics that show lots of progress!! It will look so much better when that concrete floor is replaced, don't you think?
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Update 18 November
First of all... Happy Birthday, Nathan!! (my youngest is 21 today!!)
The "state of the shop" is that the slatwall was delivered this week... last time I was over there, they were putting up the grid to get the lights back in... which means that flooring isn't far behind!
Then the real work begins for us! The fabric fixtures are due in early December and that will allow me to get all this fabric out of my dining room!! And the bulk of the fabric shipments will arrive in December -- so that will be exciting... touching all that fabric -- such an obsession, eh?
Then the Horn of America cabinets and chairs will arrive and the Bernina machines will arrive -- and David (and others) can begin the process of sewing them in and completing the Mastery Books for them. Rebecca has been putting together books for me so that we're ready to go with that.
I have a telephone conference appointment on Monday to get the POS system set up on the computer and then I'll start getting labels on the inventory that's already here at the house. Getting the inventory on the list is a huge job at this point, but I'm glad we're starting at the beginning! I can't imagine doing that when the shop is already open and you're trying to keep up with inventory manually!
MediaWorks in Bloomington is working on our logo and website -- and I'm really excited about the direction they're going with that!! I'm hoping that the website will be ready early in December... Once the logo is ready, I'll get with the the sign shop...
Chris and I went to Madison WI for a sales training early this week... a day with Kaysie Oldani, the national sales trainer for Bernina USA, is a terrific experience! And I think that Chris is now ready to help us sell machines!!
So... you can see that we've been pretty busy here!! And... it's getting COLD!! :(
The "state of the shop" is that the slatwall was delivered this week... last time I was over there, they were putting up the grid to get the lights back in... which means that flooring isn't far behind!
Then the real work begins for us! The fabric fixtures are due in early December and that will allow me to get all this fabric out of my dining room!! And the bulk of the fabric shipments will arrive in December -- so that will be exciting... touching all that fabric -- such an obsession, eh?
Then the Horn of America cabinets and chairs will arrive and the Bernina machines will arrive -- and David (and others) can begin the process of sewing them in and completing the Mastery Books for them. Rebecca has been putting together books for me so that we're ready to go with that.
I have a telephone conference appointment on Monday to get the POS system set up on the computer and then I'll start getting labels on the inventory that's already here at the house. Getting the inventory on the list is a huge job at this point, but I'm glad we're starting at the beginning! I can't imagine doing that when the shop is already open and you're trying to keep up with inventory manually!
MediaWorks in Bloomington is working on our logo and website -- and I'm really excited about the direction they're going with that!! I'm hoping that the website will be ready early in December... Once the logo is ready, I'll get with the the sign shop...
Chris and I went to Madison WI for a sales training early this week... a day with Kaysie Oldani, the national sales trainer for Bernina USA, is a terrific experience! And I think that Chris is now ready to help us sell machines!!
So... you can see that we've been pretty busy here!! And... it's getting COLD!! :(
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)