Another successful Thankgiving Holiday Knitting Marathon
Annually, I take time off from my day job as an accountant to make a major push in completing my holidays orders. The Thanksgiving holiday works perfectly for this, and I know I wouldn’t be able to get all of the items sold shipped in time otherwise. This is known as my 9 Day Knitting Marathon. This year I completed 26 doll & bear sweaters during my marathon, which is slightly below my goal of 27, but I had several unexpected projects and tasks come up during the 9 day period.
Of course, I’ve continued to sell more sweaters, so I’m knitting as fast as my fingers will let me, and will probably be pulling a couple of all-nighters over the next couple of weekends to get them all done and shipped out. As stressful as this is – I love it, I feel so popular having sales coming through, and some new color combinations and designs to work with are fun too.
To top it all off, basketball season has started, and my March Madness 2009 Squidoo lens is drawing lots of traffic and starting to make affiliate sales already – and it’s only December! I can’t wait to see what happens when we get closer to March.
So all around things are crazy, busy, hectic, and I’m loving every minute of it! Hope your holidays went well, and you’ve got only 22 shopping days left until Christmas – if you’re buying handmade – don’t wait till the last minute!!
