This week I'm talking about how to turn your craft projects into pattern instructions that you can package, market, and sell online. Whether you sew softies or do another type of craft, creating patterns is a great way to add an income stream to your handmade business. Pattern sales produce small bits of income that…
Pattern Design Week: Topic #3 Creating the Document
This week I'm talking about how to turn your craft projects into pattern instructions that you can package, market, and sell online. Whether you sew softies or do another type of craft, creating patterns is a great way to add an income stream to your handmade business. Pattern sales produce small bits of income that…
Pattern Design Week: Topic #2 Breaking it Down
This week I'm talking about how to turn your craft projects into pattern instructions that you can package, market, and sell online. Whether you sew softies or do another type of craft, creating patterns is a great way to add an income stream to your handmade business. Pattern sales produce small bits of income that…
Welcome to Pattern Design Week: Topic #1 Choosing the Right Project to Turn Into a Pattern
This week I'm going to be talking about how to turn your craft projects into pattern instructions that you can package, market, and sell online. Whether you sew softies or do another type of craft, creating patterns is a great way to add an income stream to your handmade business. Pattern sales produce small bits…
Pattern Review: Polar Bears by Betz White
One of the best ways to learn to design your own sewing patterns is to sew from other people's patterns. The more patterns you use, the more you learn. Sometimes I go long stretches just doing my own design work and forget that this is true. Last week Betz White sent me a copy of…
5 Simple Tips for Writing Sewing Patterns Your Customers Will Love
This is a post I wrote for the November 2012 Craftsy Designer Newsletter. Sewing a project from a poorly written pattern is such a frustrating experience. Instructions that are error ridden and hard to follow can make you throw your hands up in frustration, leaving you with a pile of wasted materials and hours of…
Make It Rain: How to Drum Up Business When You’re a One Person Show
If you read craft blogs (and you do, because here you are!) you’re bound to watch as other crafters get great opportunities. One just got a book deal. Another has an article coming out in a big quilting magazine. Someone else has their work in a new gallery show and she secured a licensing deal…
Book Review: Storybook Toys by Jill Hamor
I first knew that Jill Hamor was a good toy designer when I saw the Lisa and Corduroy set she made on her blog. This doll and bear so perfectly capture the nostalgic sweet look of Don Freeman’s illustration I was really blown away. It’s simply stunning work and I’ve been reading Jill’s blog, bybido,…
Podcast Special Episode: Creating a Customized Online Storefront with Jonathan Marcus, CEO of Goodsie
Today I spoke with Jonathan Marcus, the founder and CEO of Goodsie. Jonathan got in touch with me after I wrote this post about whether handmade businesses should have their own online storefronts or are better off sticking with Etsy. I’ve had my eye on Goodsie for some time now because it offers an accessible…
How Writing a Tagline for Your Business Can Help You Define Your Mission
I got Kari Chapin’s new book, Grow Your Handmade Business: How to Envision, Develop, and Sustain a Successful Creative Business, for my birthday in August and read it cover to cover. This book is a follow-up to Kari’s first book, The Handmade Marketplace. Seven years into my handmade business I have lots of ideas for…
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