Tuesdays at New Pieces Quilt Store & Gallery in Berkeley, CA

March 2011
This business development group has really focused each of us on week-to-week accountability. My personal ambition within this group is to have a smooth launch of my xoxoquilts.com business.

Because of this group, I have developed an Etsy opening inventory, written a 5-point business plan, set up my marketing strategy, and calendared my goals to reach my May 2011 launch date. It’s certainly keeping me hopping.

It’s really motivating to be around people who are just as focused as you are, yet each person brings a different strength and energy to the group.

Here we are on March 15, 2011.  Thank you Mary Risard @ New Pieces for the snapshot!

Our business development group is:

Lauri Clausen
Hip Simplicity
Hip Simplicity’s Wise Earth bags are made in the United States of 100% organic cotton, which is grown and milled in the United States.
www.HipSimplicity.com

Susan Henry
Quilt Artist
www.susanelaine.com

http://susanelainehenry.wordpress.com

Alice Beasley
I’ve been making fabric portraits in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1988
www.alicebeasley.com
http://alicebeasley.wordpress.com

Michele Garvin
Sjelly Bags

Claudia Comay
Fearless Art
Working with fabric since 1994,  Ms. Comay is concerned with using fabric in a painterly manner and with depicting form and substance three dimensionally in a minimalist way, thus creating a new lexicon that bridges the world of textiles with the world of fine art and sculpture.
http://claudiacomay.wordpress.com

Cyn Long
xoxo quilts
Xoxo quilts are handmade quilts designed to celebrate love, friends, family, and life occasions.
http://www.xoxoquilts.com

Susan Simon
Artist Corner
artistcorner.co & artistcorner.biz

Julie Banfield
Vestimentos