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Semester with Scott Week 3: Sampling of Lines
This is the third “Semester with Scott” blog post and this one is about how we have always sampled our fabric collections up until Covid hit. I will also briefly discuss how we are now sampling during Covid. Make sure to watch the class video of how we sample collections this Wednesday, October 28, 2020, at 7:30 PM Eastern on my @jaftexpresident Facebook page. Please share my page and the videos with all your fabric loving friends. After the “Semester with Scott” video goes live, make sure to be on the lookout for the Sunday weekly quiz on my Facebook page. You will have the opportunity to win some great…
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Semester with Scott Week 2: Building A Fabric Collection
This is the second “Semester with Scott” blog post where I will be talking about building a fabric collection. Make sure to watch the class video on building a fabric collection this Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at 7:30 PM (EST) on my @jaftexpresident Facebook page. Please share my page and the videos with all your fabric loving friends. After that, be on the lookout for the Sunday weekly quiz where you will have the opportunity to win some great fabric prizes just for paying attention. Have you ever wondered about what goes into constructing a fabric collection? Have you wondered why a quilting group is a certain size i.e. 10…
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#SemesterWithScott
Good Evening Students, I am your fabric professor for “Semester with Scott” which will run through the end of the year. You can call me Scott, El Presidente or Professor Fortunoff. Have a seat please. Please sit down. Quiet! Ok, enough over there. Hey, hey! Allow me to begin already. I am sure you heard this one before, but allow me to enlighten you. Look to your left. Look to your right. Half of the people around you will not graduate from this class. Does that one sound familiar? I think I heard that at least twice in my lifetime and fortunately I wasn’t in the wrong half at any…
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Guest Post from Missie Carpenter, designer for Blank Quilting Corp.
A while back, I showed you my latest fabric line, Barn Dance. It’s been so much fun making quilts with this fabric! Very soon, I can show you, but for now, it must remain a secret! Barn Dance is out in stores now so please check your local fabric shop for yardage. My next line to be shipped in December is Abby’s Treasures and I was lucky enough to get some strike-offs to create something very special. Before I show this to you up close and personal, I’ll tell you a bit about how Abby’s Treasures came to be… I’ve always been drawn to reproduction fabrics. I love my…
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How A Fabric Release is Born
A week or so ago, I drove to New York City for the first time since I moved to my new home. I definitely didn’t get off on the right foot as the drive was three hours. Yeah, I don’t think I will be driving back anytime soon. When I finally got the office, it was time for a design meeting. I thought it would be interesting for you to hear about our design meetings. On October 1st, our new October 2020 quilt collection samples will be shipped out to our sales reps and distributors all around the world. As such, it was time for us to review, critique and…
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Summer Excitement
It’s mid-September and I wanted to tell you about two exciting things that happened to me and my businesses this summer. With Covid in play, opportunities presented themselves and we were fortunate to have been able to capitalize on one of them…..for now. When Covid first hit, we thought it was going to be the end of the world so to speak. We thought we would feel a lot of stress on our business in a negative way with cancellations, store closings and lack of demand. It turns out that there was a lot of stress created, but due to mask making and a lot of free time for sewing,…
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The #JaftexVideoChallenge Winners Are…
1st Place– “Debra Howard – Quilts by the bay- One Square at a Time 2nd Place– Charlotte’s Sew Natural 3rd Place– HomeGrown HomeSewn 4th Place– Marietta’s Quilt & Sew 5th Place– Cary Quilting Company Thank you to the 125+ quilt shops who participated in this year’s #JaftexVideoChallenge. The results are in and it was one heck of a ride. This year’s challenge was a great success. There has been a ton of positive feedback from shop owners and consumers alike. You can view all of the quilt shops that participated in the challenge here. Also, I wanted to take one more opportunity to say, “Thank you” to all of you…
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Happy Labor Day
We salute you today! We salute all of those who strive to do their best every day, who put unseen and unacknowledged effort into every endeavor and still go at it with gusto. Happy Labor Day! This is a good day to thank our customers who work so hard at running their businesses, our consumer friends who work hard and spend their hard-earned money on our fabrics, and last, but not least, thank you to our employees who do tasks large and small to make all our companies better.
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The Winners of the Jaftex Facebook LIVE Video Challenge 3
Spinning around the globe with busy lives and a quiet world (thank you Covid) is a group of small quilt shop owners who are making the world a little better each and every day. In the Google Earth presentation (click on the earth view below) you will find the winners of the Jaftex Facebook Video Challenge. All of the quilt shops that entered the challenge are winners. In this small category of entrepreneurship are quilt shop owners who are supporting a burgeoning community of mask-makers and reborn quilters and sewists. This endeavor has boosted the whole sewing and quilting community as the desire for cute fabric and even ugly fabric…
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The Fabric Industry Wins With The Jaftex Facebook Live Video Challenge
As I hope you know, for the month of August, my company is hosting the Jaftex Facebook Live Shop Tour Video Challenge. (It would be great if you could take the time to go to my @jaftexpresident Facebook page and view as many of the amazing shop tours as possible.) Today, I wanted to take a moment to tell you why I think this contest is so important for our industry especially during the pandemic. For the first time in my fabric career (about 15 years), fabric is getting a lot of invaluable attention due to the mask making frenzy. This is much needed attention that our industry has been…
