I think I’m having a bit of an existential crisis with my quilting business. I started this seriously back in 2004. I like to design patterns. I like to teach. I like to write. In this day and age, that means having a business, and having a website, and having a blog. Along with those items come a lot of nit picky details. Things like taxes, keeping up the website (I had a whole other post on that) and all of these things come at a cost. Literally. I find myself at a cross roads.

A year ago, I set a goal for myself to write on my blog daily, and here I am now, having hit 53 out of the last 55 weeks (I think, that’s a mental calculation, didn’t keep it on paper). As we get to 2020, I’m thinking about what I should tackle next and I think it’s time for a new website. I converted to WordPress about three years ago and boy have I learned a lot – which is code for boy have I done a lot of things wrong and I think it’s time for an overhaul. Because I didn’t fully understand WordPress when I moved over to this platform, I ended up with a website with a TON more features than what I really need. I will never use those features yet they are built in and I have to maintain them or the whole thing goes south. Doing a redesign will take time and money and I know will be worth it but there are days I’m really regretting moving away from Blogger as a platform. I remind myself that we can’t grow if we stay always in the same spot without trying anything new.

I really want to develop a site that lets me share my love of quilting and the things that I work on and design for myself. It doesn’t have to be complicated to accomplish that, and I’d like to be able to spend more time quilting and less time trying to keep my site going. If you look now, I think most of my secondary pages are broken, not sure why, and if you noticed there’s not a featured image on this post, it’s because Word Press has decided that I can’t upload new photos, so until I get that figured out, there won’t be any new images on the blog. Yet another thing that was working great and is now broken.

I’m curious to see where 2020 takes, but I know I will get there in style with a new website. Keep your eyes on this space, I should have something to announce in the February time frame.