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Lazy Scott couldn’t motivate this weekend to do a blog because he was so sore from running in an effort to keep up with his New Year’s resolution (I love coming up with excuses for my blog slacking).  So here I am at 5:15 pm racking my brain for a topic and praying that an entire blog entry magically appears on my computer screen before I have to leave to go get my train home at 6:11.       Hmmm.  Hmmm. I guess I can’t wait any longer for this blog to appear, but that was worth a try.  OK then.  Let me try one more time, I think…

Today is February 2nd, a very special day for me because it is groundhog day.  No really, why would groundhog day be important to anyone?  Seems like a meaningless holiday to me.  The only time groundhog day had any meaning was when ding dong Mayor DeBlasio dropped the poor ground hog and it died.  I am sure not many people knew about that because they kept it pretty well under wraps.  Anyway, the real reason why February 2nd is such an important day is because that is the day that my first son was born and my life changed forever.  When I say forever, I mean forever.      Yesterday,…

Good Day Studioe Fans,   I wanted to take a moment to enlighten you about our minimum order requirements for our companies and discuss why we have them.  For Studioe, the minimum order quantity is 5 bolts per shipment.  On reorders, the minimum is 3 bolts.  Our other quilt shop only companies, the Blank Quilting Corp. and Henry Glass have the same minimum requirements.  As for A.E. Nathan, there is a 6 bolt minimum order. Just like our quilt shop customers, we too have minimum order requirements set by all of the different fabric mills that we do business with when we place our fabric orders. These minimums are in…

Yes, it is Tuesday and I missed my Monday blog deadline.  I am sorry.  The thing is that I have a really good excuse.  I had the stressful pleasure of going upstate with my family to go skiing.  I planned to come home on Sunday to get back to work on Monday and write the most eloquent blog filled with humor, sadness, fear and loads of other emotions. However, after hearing allover the news about the horrible ice on the roads and tons of accidents, I opted to stay for another night in the safety of my friends house.  I hope you can all agree that the safety of my…

I recently was reading through the latest issue of Fab Shop news and I came across a very interesting article from Karen Montgomery where she was giving suggestions on how to manage your quilt shop.  One of the subjects she covered was marking down goods in order to turn slow moving fabric in to cash and reinvest it elsewhere. This made me think about how we manage our markdowns and closeouts so I wanted to share some insights as to how we deal with this as a fabric supplier.     Let’s call a spade a spade, when something isn’t going to sell, we usually figure this out fairly quickly.…