Sounds great to me. I have always wanted a small store to sell homemade things. But with the prices of store rental and the economy I don't think it will happen any time soon. BUT don't give up your dream, I'm not and I am 60yo.

And it's a very nice dream! Hope it comes true. :thumbup:

I like the name your husband picked! Good luck!

I share the same dream with you! I know that mine will be years and years from now. I truly believe that if you can dream it, you can achieve it!

Lots of great suggestions. How about offering trips to the big National Quilt Shows like Sisters, Paducah, Houston. Most guilds offer trips to more local shows but acting as travel guide to some of the biggies (maybe even other countries) would be great.

My dream is to convert my large 1750's barn into a studio space. Downstairs would be a wood shop for DH and upstairs my space with huge windows to look over the fields and skylights for lots of sun. Of course a nice spot to relax with a cup of coffee and peruse some great quilt magazines is a must too!

I think if you tried...your dream could come true. :) Quilters are wonderful people.

One of our LQS (9 miles away) sarted way small, now has a
LARGE inventory, She carries plastic template material
etc. and all sorts of notions, about anything anyone could
want. She also has yarn, has had tating lessons there. And
it's an older downtown building, so has an upstairs and they'
have over-night sew-ins, and evidently they have a 'ball' up
there. She also does machine quilting of course. Has sure
built it up.

There is a shop in Marine City, Mi called Quilting Dreams.

"Material Things" is a wonderful name for a lovely dream. I have a friend who opened her own small town shop and she runs exhausted all of the time. It is a lot of work......hours are long. If you would love to do it.....go for it!! We girls can do anything! Good Luck and when you open make sure we heard about it :-D

Can I come and work for you??