well, this little quilt was sent to it’s rightful owner last week after some minor agony. it has been sent to a very loving home and a beautiful little baby. for a breif point in time, there appeared to be an issue with mailing it, when my friend reported that she had not received it in the post- what a scary feeling!!
on other quilting matters, tracey and i made our first public appearance as ‘peek-a-boo baby blankies’ at the local ‘christmas in july’ markets. it was a triumphant sense having just made it and setting up stall!! Around about 10ish, though we had not sold a single quilt, despite lots of lovely comments. i was feeling incredibly frustrated- this was enhanced with the increasing volume of poor taste of music, blaring from the local radio stations van. however by the end of the day, we had suceeded in selling five quilts. this was a huge sense of relief, having recovered the expense of attending the market and leaving us with a little extra money to play with. this left us pondering future business moves from here…
based on feedback from the markets, it seems that the next logical step is to market to a wider, more specific audience- ie to baby boutiques etc. as tracey mentioned, it is hard to look credible as a specialty stall when the equivelant of toilet dollies etc are being sold in the stall next door. the current price of our quilts was determined with no real acknowledgement to the hours of labour (although thourougly enjoyable!!). in particular i had not felt confident about raising the price any higher given the population we were selling to and was concerned that we may be considered pretentious. after yesterday, it seems clearer that this may be the only way of justifying the product that we are so proud of creating. it is going to require some gutsy decission making
this devine photoe was taken by tracey (and also taken from her blog 
and is a sneak peek of some of the quilts
onto other news. one of my brothers made a long journey to vissit my mum for her birthday. it was such a joy having him around. we often reflect on our childhood, now we’re all ever so ‘grown-up’. As kids, we seemed to fight constantly. now there is a little distance from this time, we all really enjoy each others company. it is one of the most heart warming things to have arrived at this time in our lives where we have fun relationships with each other. For the past few years, we have had anual camping trips together, which amount in the highest degree of silliness and amusement. this was our camping trip last year…
DEFINITELY increase the prices. The more I thought about, the more convinced I was that you guys are underselling. YAY you!!!
I just had a long ramble on Tracey’s blog, giving her my two cents and now I have another suggestion.
Why not get a button/link put on the sidebar of your blogs that, when people click on it, they go to a website specifically set up for you to sell your quilts. And if people want to put the button on their blog, let them: it may start a worldwide online business…?? I’d certainly be happy to help by advertising your quilts in the sidebar of my blog.
Hmmm the ironic thing here is that I was going to chat to you about our name. When I did a search on businesses with the name peek-a-boo I found two with peek-a-boob. I felt somewhat disturbed by this, but it appears that your brothers already knew about it!
Thanks Kirsty- i definately agree.
Thanks Tanya- that sounds like an great idea, will keep you posted on the details.
Yes, my brothers would be highly amused at how easy it was to taint such an innocent name.
Well done girls, good to hear the markets were a success. I agree branching out into internet based sales is a good idea if you can get the publicity. Perhaps a bit of advertising in quilting magazines would help the cause aswell, when you can get it up and running.
Good work Racy Tracy and Floey Joey.
Hey!!! I’m Lacey walk at your own Pacey Tracey!
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Congratulations on selling your quilts and raising quite a bit of interest in them as well. Michelle (Tanya’s sister) and I used to do markets – Michelle made bags and I made aprons and dolls clothes. It’s always a thrill when you sell something, and a bit disappointing when you don’t. Your quilts look lovely.
Oi we’re sexy ey
Stumbled upon this in a link from TwoLimeLeaves, and I’m scrolling down the page, smiling about the “peek-a-boob” comments and the VeggieMan, and I see this photo and think “OMG green boobs!” Then I think “Holy cow, crazy muscles!” Then I pass out.