S. Denise Hoyle | September 17, 2009
Promoting your business is the key to its success! If you don’t promote your business, how will you find new customers and help the business to grow? Here are some easy steps to help you promote your sewing business. 1) Create Some Marketing Tools Every business should have business cards and flyers. It doesn’t matter [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | September 16, 2009
Have you gotten your new October/November 2009 issue of Sew News yet? If you aren’t a subscriber already, click on the link in the side bar and get a subscription. Sew News magazine is always filled with creative ideas, projects and tips. Anyway, they’d asked me to do a tutorial on doing a chair cushion [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | September 15, 2009
Heidi of Extra Special Touch Embroidery in the UK has come up with the cutest idea of converting children’s artwork into embroidery designs that she then uses to create cushions or framed artwork. Heidi says that most drawings can be converted, but not all, and that it’s best to use thick felt tip pens for [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | September 14, 2009
How often in all the years of your home business have you been hit with something so totally out of your control that it literally knocked you off your feet? That’s what’s recently happened to me and I can’t even believe I was so “wiped out” that I couldn’t even do my share of the [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | September 10, 2009
A recent survey by Harris Interactive and IMShopping concluded that more than half of consumers make purchase decisions “at least sometimes” based on their abilitity to get help from another person. Of those surveyed, 52% said they had decided NOT to make a purchase because they weren’t able to get any human interaction for assistance [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | September 9, 2009
There are so many types of fabrics, that it would be very difficult to put together a list of “how to’s” that cover every fabric and fabric blend that’s on the market. Today I’m going to just put together a few tips that we’ve accumulated from our customers, and things that we’ve found to work, [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | September 8, 2009
Jill Green of the Homemade By Jill Blog says that she’s been sewing for about three years, and although she is mostly self taught, her mom is a great seamstress so Jill calls on her to help out if she runs into trouble. A brief stint at Martha Stewart also helped Jill to improve her [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | September 7, 2009
It seems like only a few weeks ago we were doing our “Happy New Year / Jan 1 postings” and now here it is already September! Turn around a couple times and Christmas and the Holiday Season will be upon us. Which brings up a good question — is it too early to start drumming [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | September 6, 2009
Hand towels and dish towels are normally pretty cheap to buy – check flea markets and dollar stores – and great for making a variety of aprons. With our little “almost” 4 year old quadruplets at our house several times a week, I found this adorable “Art Apron” from a dishtowel from ObsessivelyStitching.blogspot that just seemed [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | September 5, 2009
I love free patterns, but this one is one of the BEST I’ve seen lately!!! A corset sachet from FeelingStitchy — now does this bring back memories of the “good old days” – or 1880′s days (before our time)! It’s getting close to Christmas, and I’ll just bet you could make a few of these [...]
