S. Denise Hoyle | May 21, 2009
BurdaStyle is giving you a chance to showcase your talent! Send in your design sketches, along with a short essay on why your design is perfect for you, as well as for other BurdaStyle members. The design categories include – women, women’s plus, men, children and accessories.Accepted designs will be produced into a Burda pattern [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | May 20, 2009
If you’re like me and don’t own one of the fancy embroidery machines, you can still do sewing machine embroidery, appliques and monogramming using your regular sewing machine.Appliques are so super easy to make and can be used to decorate everything from purses to skirts to wall hangings to towels and children’s clothing. I like [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | May 19, 2009
ByKidsOnly.com is a beautifully designed website full of bright, kid-friendly colors and designs, that was created to allow kids to express themselves through fashion. The site encourages kids to design their own fashions and upload them to the site for others to vote on their favorite designs, like the one pictured here by Shira, age 12.This [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | May 18, 2009
Those of us who are in the sewing and/or craft businesses, need to keep an eye on the fashion forecasts just to have a “heads up” on what our customers may be asking for.It appears that a current fashion trend is for oversized button-down dresses and shirts. The fashionable way to wear the oversized dresses [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | May 17, 2009
Amy Adams at LucyKate Crafts blog always has some of the cutest handmade goodies, and sometimes I wonder how she comes up with so many neat ideas!Her current tutorial, posted on May 9 is a watch pincushion. As I was looking at the pin cushion and the tutorial, my own “Ah ha” moment happened — [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | May 16, 2009
We have done product reviews on a wide variety of items, from button hole elastic to the Twelve In One Magic Ruler and a ton of other items that make the sewers and crafters work a little easier.We’ve been getting quite a few requests to do an informational post on the Sewing Machine Repair For [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | May 15, 2009
The 9th Semi-Annual Great Cloth Diaper Hunt has begun, and the popular event promotes over 400 cloth diaper business that are run by work at home moms. Diaper Decisions organizes the event twice a year which allows businesses to pay to sponsor the hunt by “hiding” a badge of a cloth diaper like the one [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | May 14, 2009
Fabric On Demand is another great place where you can have fabric printed with your own designs. Their exciting new service will custom print any design you can imagine on your choice of five different fabrics – 100% cotton, poly / cotton broadcloth (35% cotton / 65% polyester), fleece, cotton duck and micro-denier suede. They [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | May 13, 2009
From time to time we find new or unusual avenues to extend our sewing business, and we feel like the addition of such items increases the number of possible customers for us or increases the variety of work we can do for our current customers.The “unusual” happened over the last several months. We announced our [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | May 12, 2009
Bobby Jones, a high school senior ar Greece Athena High School, started his own designer bedding and pillow business last year for a program at school. The Young Entrepreneurs Academy program, or YEA! for short, teaches students how to write business plans and pitch investors so they can create their own job opportunities.Jones’ creations have [...]
