End of Year Activities

I haven’t posted in a couple of weeks for a few very good reasons.

First, I’ve been quilting my little tail off to try to get all these quilts finished, and… I did!!! I ended up needing to quilt several quilts a day for a few days in a row, but in all, I managed to quilt 50 quilts this year in my first year of long arm quilting, and 18 of those were finished in the last 30 days of the year.  You’re probably wondering when I’m going to post about them, but that’s going to need to wait.

Second, I have a couple of caveats to mention. One, I do have one quilt on the frame for a local artist who I promised to quilt for before I stopped accepting projects. Second, although I no longer accept orders for custom quilts, I do still have two projects that need to be finished. Neither customer is in a hurry, which is good because I won’t be able to spend much time on them in January.

Third, year-end is just a sucky time for small businesses who carry inventory and don’t reconcile their accounts regularly.  Oh, I keep meticulous records about what fabric is used on which projects, how much thread, what was purchased and from whom, etc.  It’s just that… I keep it all on paper in envelopes and in email folders instead of entering it into my accounting software.  I think I’m still a little bit gun-shy about the computer system, since the last one I had got corrupted & I lost the entire year of entries.  That was a complete & utter mess to unravel, but then so is entering an entire year from paper envelopes into the electronic system.  I am promising myself to do a weekly reconciliation this year.  That will make it a lot more manageable.

Anyway, I’m sorry to be a complete & total bore in this post, but I do find it hard to focus on being creative when I have taxes and a physical inventory to do. 

So between that, and my filming some Quilty episodes this weekend, I’m gonna be quieter still!

See you on the other side!