Have I mentioned that I love machine quilting? If not, perhaps it is somewhat obvious from my posts. ;-) Have I mentioned that others have show interest in my quilting? There are a few posts on that, too. That interest brought me to a bit of a crossroads in my quilting endeavors. As my profile states, I lean towards a quiet life and being entrepreneurial has never really been more than a fleeting thought here or there. However, with requests for quilting coming my way now and then, I needed to decide what direction to take.
After weighing the options, I decided to take the plunge and make myself an actual business. I am working through the permit process slowly and hope to have all that figured out before too long. Though I am officially a business woman now, I am not trying to be a business in the sense of actively building clientele. Rather, when requests do come my way, I want to be able to take on that work without any questionable money issues.
The other side of being a business is time, and that, as much as anything, was a big factor in my consideration. While I love working on projects for other people, I still want time to do my own projects. I also didn't want to have a schedule that was constantly pressed for time. The house still needs to be cleaned, the laundry done, and meals fixed. Nor do I want the pressure of a backload of projects.
The blessing of my situation is that I don't need to do this for income, therefore I can take on only the amount of projects I have time for. I can devote up to four hours a week for commissioned quilts--not a lot of time, but enough to keep things moving steadily. I will have two hours a week reserved solely for my own projects. And, of course, when I don't have any commissioned quilts in the works, I can spend more time on my own projects.
So, I am headed down a new path, and I look forward to seeing where this adventure leads.
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