Mary Emma Allen, Quilting Entrepreneur
I’ll briefly summarize why I can provide you with quilt business information.  In addition to operating a mail order quilting business from my home for several years, I’ve written about quilts, quilting, and quiltmakers.  For 8 years I wrote “The Business of Patchwork” for the now obsolete Quilt World Omnibook.  Then for 3 more years, I wrote “Work Patch” for another magazine.
During this time, I taught workshops, gave talks, and visited schools to introduce quiltmaking to students studying early American crafts.
I’ve not operated a quilting business as such for several years, but have continued to …read more