{"id":4243,"date":"2021-01-21T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dream.press\/?post_type=customer-spotlight&p=4243"},"modified":"2025-05-06T19:42:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T19:42:27","slug":"quilty-love","status":"publish","type":"customer-spotlight","link":"https:\/\/news.dream.press\/news\/customer-spotlight\/quilty-love\/","title":{"rendered":"From Blog to Biz: Quilty Love Crafts Bright, Modern Quilt Designs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Emily Dennis was in denial about her plans to launch a business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even when Dennis started a blog and Instagram to share the modern quilts she crafted, carefully cultivating a following, she couldn\u2019t quite admit to herself that she was building the foundation of a small business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have a habit of turning hobbies into businesses,\u201d Dennis says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her sewing and quilt hobby was just a few years old. She started with making a simple T-shirt quilt and soon became captivated by modern quilting, drawn in by bold colors coupled with designs rooted in tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wanted to enjoy it as a hobby,\u201d Dennis says. \u201cI was afraid I would lose my love of sewing if I made it a job.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, the tempting pull of building a business was tenacious \u2014 she\u2019s always loved the challenge of creating something from scratch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March of 2015, Dennis gave in, and her love for all things business and quilting is still going strong. Quilty Love<\/a> has gained serious traction over the years on Instagram<\/a> and Pinterest<\/a>. The heart of her business is the Quilty Love blog, where Dennis offers free tutorials and business tips and sells quilting patterns she designed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cQuilty Love is a modern quilting brand that offers quilt patterns, inspiration, and business advice for crafty creatives,\u201d Dennis says. She\u2019s published almost 40 quilt patterns \u2014 on sale both in her online shop and in quilt shops throughout the U.S. \u2014 which have been sewn by quilters worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her blog and online shop are powered by DreamHost<\/a>, and she\u2019s become a fan of the solid service she\u2019s enjoyed while building different projects with her host over the past decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related:<\/strong> DreamHost\u2019s Ultimate Small Business Resource Guide<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before Dennis became a quilter, she was a photographer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was at a point in my life where I needed a new challenge, so I bought a camera and learned how to use it,\u201d Dennis says. \u201cLearning photography was such a fulfilling thing for me. When I\u2019m passionate about something, I\u2019ll spend hours and hours Googling everything you can imagine about it. I learned photography the same way I learned quilting \u2014 from Google!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon enough, her love of photography grew into a business venture: a boutique photography studio<\/a> specializing in weddings and high school senior portraits. Dennis started by taking prom pictures for her husband\u2019s students; soon more people requested portraits, and her business bloomed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Her photography business is still up and running, and her experience running it provided a valuable training ground that she\u2019s built upon with Quilty Love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThose years taught me so much about running a business and provided skills that became invaluable when I started Quilty Love,\u201d Dennis says. \u201cQuilty Love happened so easily and was so enjoyable to build because of the experience I gained from my photography business.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before making her first quilt in 2012 \u2014 a request from a family member \u2014 Dennis owned a sewing machine but had never used it for traditional sewing. \u201cI had only sewn paper with it,\u201d she says, as part of creating decorations for scrapbooks, another of her crafty hobbies turned business venture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t love the process of making that first quilt, but I went on to make quilts for each of my kids over the next few years,\u201d Dennis says. \u201cI started coming up with my own designs and sewing them up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As she grew to love the creativity of quilting, the first thoughts of creating a quilting-related business started edging in. And she chose to ignore those thoughts at first, wanting to keep her new hobby a passion project<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as the blog and Instagram she made for sharing her creations gained an audience, she started getting requests from followers to access the patterns she designed for her quilts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAfter a few requests, I decided to jump in and give it a go,\u201d Dennis says, and she launched her first modern quilt pattern for sale. \u201c[My quilts] started to create interest and an audience. That is when everything changed, and I became completely obsessed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, her fears about monetizing her hobby proved unfounded as Dennis discovered a love for sharing patterns, tutorials, and business tips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cQuilty Love became the perfect combination of photography, creativity, and business building,\u201d she says.  \u201cAll the things I am super passionate about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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