Have you checked in with yourself lately to see how you’re feeling about your day-to-day business activities? Being a solo entrepreneur means tackling many different tasks each day, everything from responding to customer emails to reordering supplies to meeting with your Wirral accountant, and so much more. You’re responsible for dreaming up the big ideas…
Quilts, Inc. Does Away with Husbands’ Lounge at International Quilt Festival
International Quilt Festival is taking place this weekend. Quilt enthusiasts from all over the country and the world have gathered in Houston, Texas to take workshops by highly esteemed instructors, see award-winning quilts, and shop for fabric and quilting supplies. There’s one thing visitors won’t find at the show this year, though: a husbands’ lounge…
Sew Much Commerce Makes It Possible to Sell Fabric on Shopify in Fractional Yards
James Pieper is a Shopify developer focused on setting up ecommerce sites for businesses in the quilting industry. Through his business, Sew Much Commerce, he’s offering a crucial modification to Shopify’s offerings: the ability to sell fabric in fractional quantities. With the code James has developed online fabric shop owners can now use the internet’s…
The Thread Rack Brings Organization to the Sewing Room, All Thanks to June Tailor
My studio. Can you spot the thread rack? Walk into almost anyone’s sewing room and you’ll likely see a thread rack mounted on the wall, spools of thread in pretty rows waiting to be plucked off their dowels for the next project. The thread rack is ubiquitous in today’s sewing studio. What you may not…
Reflections on Today’s Home Sewing Pattern Market
I just finished reading Blueprints of Fashion: Home Sewing Patterns of the 1940s. This is my first deep dive into the history of home sewing in America and it’s made me reflect on the moment sewing is experiencing in our culture right now. The role of sewing in the lives of women has radically changed,…
Sample Spree, Rife With Reselling, Has New Staggered Entry Times
Waiting for the Sample Spree doors to open. Photo by The Quilt Room “I’ve seen people line up five hours before we open the doors. You’d think it was the Rolling Stones concert circa 1975,” says Bob Ruggiero, Vice President of Marketing for Quilts, Inc. the company that puts on Quilt Market, the quilting industry’s…
Handheld Handmade Brings Curated Handmade Goods Straight to Your Phone Via Text Message
Handheld Handmade is an innovative ecommerce service launching next week that operates entirely via text messaging. It’s the first of its kind in the handmade retail scene, and among the first text messaging ecommerce platforms in the United States. A year in development the San Francisco based company is the brainchild of Kelly Rand, an…
PreQuilt is a Sleek New Design Tool for Quilters
One January evening Laura Henneberry was designing a quilt in Adobe Illustrator and growing increasingly frustrated with the tedium of making design changes. Her husband, Gar Liu, a web developer, looking over her shoulder, remarked, “I could code something that would do that for you in one click.” Laura’s eyes lit up. That simple exchange…
How Quilt Market Could Invest in Its Own Revival by Catering to Online Retailers
According to Paul Johnson, the owner of Quilting Hub, a quilt shop registry, the total number of brick-and-mortar quilt shops in the United States is shrinking. Johnson’s records show that there were approximately 5,500 quilt shops in 2010, whereas today that number is closer to 3,200. “The majority of quilt shop owners that were hobbyists are…
How to Save on the Best Sewing and Creative Business Supplies on Amazon Prime Day
Amazon Prime Day begins today at 3 pm Eastern. The event runs for a day and a half and is a great opportunity to save money on some essentials you’ve been meaning to buy. As a mom of three kids who also works a lot, I’m a pretty big fan of the convenience of online…
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