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Tales Of A Fourth Generation Textile Executive: What’s In Your Bathroom?
Hey Everybody, Last week I had the great pleasure of hitting the road with a Studioe sales reps down in the South. As you probably know, I love to be on the road because I always learn so much from customers and love to see our sales reps in action. Of course, this trip was no different. I learned loads, but there is one thing in particular that I wanted to focus on now that I learned while on the road. Have you ever seen the Capital One Financial ad where the guys says, “What’s in your wallet?” Well, forget that guy and imagine yours truly in the ad asking,…
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108″ by 3 yd Giveaway
This is a short and sweet giveaway. Enter to win by by Midnight Tuesday by just hitting LIKE on our Facebook page! Studioe Friday Giveaway
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Tales Of A Fourth Generation Textile Executive: The Demise Of The Quilting Industry Is Greatly Exaggerated
ex·ag·ger·a·tion noun: a statement that represents something as better or worse than it really is. synonyms: overstatement, overemphasis, magnification, amplification, aggrandizement; More dramatization, elaboration, embellishment, embroidery, hyperbole, overkill, gilding the lily “his testimony was a laughable mix of contradiction and exaggeration” Not too many blogs ago I discussed the challenges of our industry and how there needs to be some healthy fallout with respect to quilt shops and fabric vendors. The gist of the blog was that there are too many shops and too many fabric vendors and just not enough sales to go around. The bottom line is that people go in to business to make money. However, a…
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Brushstrokes Strips and Squares Giveaway Contest
Brushstrokes by Pepper Cory are a beautiful blender, and now you can win this duo of strips and squares in this weeks giveaway. Studio E Fabrics Brushstrokes Strips and Charms Giveaway
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Tales Of A Fourth Generation Textile Executive: Digital Printing
At Jaftex, we have been watching the digital printing fabric trend very closely over the last year or so, but opted to stay on the sidelines. I know others have been watching too as I see more and more articles on the subject and am starting to hear a lot of chatter. At first, the digital printing started out with companies digitally printing projects and designs on a small scale. This served as a simple and quick marketing tool to help shops sell fabric and save them time from having to make time consuming store samples. In addition, some companies were using the digital printing as an easy way for their sales reps to have fabric samples to show to…
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Tales Of A Fourth Generation Textile Executive: Car Fabric
In spite of my recent random act of kindness (RAOK) blogs having a really good feeling about them for me and hopefully you, I have decided to move on as two blogs on the subject were probably enough. I was however tempted to go back to the RAOK and mention all the random acts of kindness that I saw at the Olympics among competing athletes from different countries. Needless to say, the kindness, professionalism, humbleness, good sportsmanship and heart showed very much in the Olympics. It was really touching and brought tears to my eyes to see such awesome sacrifices. It was fantastic to witness and should be a lesson…
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Tales Of A Fourth Generation Textile Executive: The Beauty Of Random Acts Of Kindness Revisited
Hi Fans & Followers, This August heat is starting to wear me down. This past weekend was over 100 degrees both days and felt more like 110. My brain is so fried that I just can’t bear to come up with an extremely thought out blog, but I can come up with a thoughtful one. That being said, I did want to revisit a recent blog that I wrote called: The Beauty Of Random Acts of Kindness. So in the blog that I am referring to, I asked readers to nominate someone that they know that they think is deserved of getting a random act of kindness (RAOK) in…
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Tales Of A Fourth Generation Textile Executive: The Charity Gift That Keeps On Giving
Both of my parents are turning 70 this year. Every year the family goes through the same struggle of figuring out what gifts to get them. Of course, this year is a big birthday, so we need to step things up a little bit, right? Enough of the belts, night gowns, gift cards, wallets, scarves and other material things that are here today and gone tomorrow. This year it was time for a gift that keeps on giving. I am sure you want to know what it is already, right? I recently joined the board of the local JCC where I live. In light of this, our company has started to send the JCC fabric to…
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“Dear Santa” Advent Calendar with Pockets
Today is a guest post from blogger Julianne Walther, of Cary Quilting Company in Cary, NC. They have used the advent calendar from the Dear Santa line from Studioe, and illustrated below how to put the pockets on! Thank you for sharing Julianne! Scott will be returning to this spot next Monday morning. Creating an Advent Calendar with Pockets Hi there! We have a fun panel to create an Advent Calendar in the shop, and instead of using the directions printed on the panel, we came up with what we think is a better way to create it! We want to share our tutorial with you now: It starts with this panel by…
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Tales Of A Fourth Generation Textile Executive: The Beauty Of Random Acts Of Kindness
One of the companies (The Blank Quilting Corp.) under the Jaftex umbrella is having a challenge. Hopefully you know all about it already, but if not, please check out this link. Since the challenge relates to honoring troops that died in the line of duty, the America’s Mighty Warriors charity was selected as the recipient of all donations. After contacting the charity, I learned that Marc Allen Lee was the first Navy SEAL killed in Iraq defending his teammates. He received several amazing awards for his heroism. Marc’s Mother, Debbie Lee, founded America’s Mighty Warriors to honor her son. Long story short, Marc wrote this amazing letter to his…