Sarah J. Doyle | January 20, 2010
Last summer I did a post on my personal blog entitled S-T-R-E-T-C-H Your Dollars – Quit Buying Patterns, and since it was posted it has continued to be the top post visited there. As the economy continues to crumble, we have to be creative in thinking of ways to save money. One of the best [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | January 13, 2010
We talk from time to time about the huge market there is for sewing for plus size boys and girls (take a look around and you’ll see how true this is!) However, we rarely mention increasing your services by doing specialty sewing for plus size and full figure women. At the BigBeautifulPeople website you will [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | December 6, 2009
We’ve be overwhelmed with requests for our Altering Store Bought Patterns For Plus Size Children — mothers and grandmothers are writing to say “The Christmas program is fast approaching and I simply can’t find anything suitable for my overweight daughter / granddaughter to wear!” Another grandmother purchased the Altering Patterns class and said: ”I have [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | May 23, 2009
OR, can you add a girly “wing” sleeve to a tank top???? Well, the girly wing sleeve tutorial was just so cute, I had to add it to this post. Jona at Fabritopia has written the neatest tutorial about adding a little cap type sleeve (she calls them wings) to a basic tank top “to [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | January 5, 2009
From time to time we try to give updates and information on how to increase your sewing business. Expanding the sewing and craft business is necessary in order to “increase the bottom line in 2009″.How much sewing do you do for men? If anybody answered that they actually DO sew for men, how difficult is [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | August 2, 2008
With school starting soon, all of us in the sewing business will be bombarded with requests to try to make some pants and shorts for those customers who have overweight and plus size children because there just won’t be anything in ready-to-wear that will fit them. This year why not try out the following shorts [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | July 9, 2008
If you’re in a sewing business, whether you sew for children or for women, you can impress your customers by letting them know you can “change up” their pattern by making different sleeve styles than just the one that came with the pattern. A basic short sleeve pattern is great, but by changing it to [...]
