Oh.. ask your frequent and good customers (those who always bring in WIPs or completed quilts to show off) if they'd like to make samples for the shop. I overheard one of the workers complaining that she didn't want to make this one pattern, because it wasn't her style (but it was mine) and I said that I'd do it, but she said "no, we'd have to pay you" The owner (luckily) was there and said that if I'd do the top she'd give me 5 or 6 yards of fabric as payment. They quilted it, not me, and it's their top, with my name as a piecer. But of course I brought in my friends and family to see the top I made. And they spent money.