This is more in the nature of a blog; something I'd normally put in my livejournal, but people who read that just won't really grok it.
The deadline for our quilt show is just a little more than a week away. The entries coming by mail are starting to really accelerate. I got entries today from about 6 people.
This year I got smarter than last year. I made up a microsoft access database to put everything in. I enter all the stuff in the "table" view, then I made all these cool reports. I made one that summarizes all the entries by "class", for ballots for the committee to vote on the winners or to see what's been entered in wearables. I made 2 for pickup/dropoff; listing all the quilts that show come from or go back to that particular site. I made one for the text for the catalog; which I'll have to blend together with the ads at the end. I made one that prints out each submitter's entries, so they can proof the information I've typed. I can do a filter on "paid" entries and find out just how many "out of guild" entries we have.
It's so cool.
Ok, so I'm a geek.
Well, it's working very well.
The toughest part oddly enough was getting the pickup/dropoff sites to sort and print right; I won't bore you.
So, here's to doing a very tangentially quilty happy dance.
susan kraterfield see my quilts: members.cox.net/kratersge