I love to sew. I used to dream about building a business that allowed me to sew every single day. For years, I worked in my studio sewing handmade soft toys and sold them at craft fairs and online. I made a little money – enough to cover expenses and have a little left over…
Archives for November 2013
Forging a New Path in Craft Book Publishing: Introducing Lucky Spool
Signing the contract to publish a book is one of the most thrilling, and overwhelming, moments in any designer’s professional life. You know it’ll be a lot of work, but you can already imagine the day when you walk into the bookstore and there’s your beautiful book sitting on the shelf. You’ll glow with pride…
Book Review: Sewing Tales to Stitch and Love by Kerry Goulder
Sewing Tales to Stitch and Love, by Kerry Goulder, is a new project book with 18 softie sewing patterns. Kerry lives in Southern Maine and is a mom to two girls. Before writing this book designed five patterns for Anna Griffin, a well-known brand of stationary, home, and gift products. Kerry also sold her handmade…
Safety Testing for Handmade Toys
+++++ January 7, 2016 UPDATE: Neal Cohen, the Ombudsman for the Consumer Product Safety Commission, got in touch with me this week to tell me about a brand new tool created to help small those of us who make toys and other handmade products figure out exactly what kind of safety testing we’ll need before…