Brighten Your Day With Humor In Your Quilting Business
The other evening, my husband and I related to friends an incident that happened in a business we owned several years ago. We all laughed over what happened and it helped boost the couple over some challenges they were experiencing.
“Yes,” I thought, “time does lend humor to situations we find difficult to laugh at the time they’re happening.”
Then I recalled situations in my quilting business I can look back on now with humor. If I’d learned to see the humor while they were happening, I wouldn’t have had so much stress at the time.
*”Mary, the batting is coming through the back of my quilt like popcorn,” a customer commented. When I looked at her queen sized quilt, I had to agree. Little tufts of the polyester/cotton batting were coming through between the threads. Research revealed that this was possible when you used polyester/cotton batting with some fabrics.
The daunting task of replacing the batting was time consuming, involving taking out all the ties (fortunately it wasn’t hand or machine quilted), ripping out the border seams, removing the batting, putting in new and finishing the quilt again. I was fortunate that the lady was understanding, patient while I fixed the problem. Fortunately she still wanted the quilt. I now can share this incident with other quilters and laugh, instead of moan, hopefully encouraging them.
Since those experiences with the earlier business, Jim and I have tried to find humor in situations, even though we sometimes have to stretch to do it. This doesn’t mean disregarding the problems or being slap-stick silly. It has taught us to try finding some humor in our day to get through the tough times…and to inspire others
I frequently call to mind a quote of Florence Littauer’s in her book I’ve Found My Keys, Now Where’s My Car? She relates various episodes of her life of getting through the tough times as well as developing her writing/speaking business. At the end of each chapter, which she sparks with her definitive sense of humor, “Make the Tough Times Count.”
Sometimes you can do this with humor and sometimes not. But humor will help lighten the load…and make a chuckling, often encouraging, story later on.
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