MaternitySewing.com launches today. The site is a marketplace for maternity and nursing patterns by independent designers and aims to become an online community for mothers who sew. Maternity Sewing was founded by Erin Weisbart, of Tuesday Stitches (formerly Seamstress Erin), and Lisa Kievits of Paprika Patterns. The two became acquainted years ago as sewing bloggers…
Modern Row By Row Experience 2018: A Travel Guide
Row By Row on display at Modern Domestic in Portland, Oregon. Are you planning a road trip this summer or going travelling to look for places to visit in Costa Rica? If you’re like me, whenever you travel you’re always on the lookout for a crafty destination, somewhere to buy a unique fabric or interesting…
Quilt Market Attendance Numbers 2008-2018 and Why They’re Important
Each fall and spring for the last ten years Quilts, Inc., the company that owns Quilt Market, has published the attendance numbers for the show in their newsletter. Over the years that I’ve been reporting on the quilting industry, I’ve heard many people express skepticism about the accuracy of these numbers. Just last week I was talking…
MyBodyModel is a Body Positive Design Tool for Garment Makers
MyBodyModel, a web-based design app that allows users to create a custom fashion croquis, launches today. A croquis is figure drawing used in fashion illustration. Designers sketch clothing onto a croquis while working out a new look or collection. Croquis for fashion illustration are typically highly elongated bodies that aren’t representative of real women. Typical…
Anna Maria Horner Launches Conservatory, A Designer Collaboration
For a decade fabric designer Anna Maria Horner says she kept her head down and her eyes straight ahead. As a fabric designer for Free Spirit since 2005, she created almost in isolation. Known for her artistic collections featuring deep jewel tones and bohemian motifs she says, “I didn’t really pay much attention to what…
Etsy CEO Josh Silverman Needs to Spend Time Talking to Sellers
This week marks Josh Silverman’s one year anniversary as CEO of Etsy. On Tuesday Etsy released its first quarter 2018 earnings report so Josh is doing a bunch of interviews right now. On Wednesday he was on CNBC: Josh has clearly had a ton of media training. He always says the same exact thing in…
How to Get Your Own Fabric Printed
Custom fabric designed and printed for Craft Napa. Are you hosting a special quilting event? Are you a regional shop that’s a destination for travelers? How neat would it be to design and print custom fabric to mark a special occasion or place. Of course, Spoonflower has made this possible by offering on-demand digitally printed fabric to…
How to Develop an Online Persona for Yourself
Photo by my friend, Lisa Neighbors. I was chatting the other day with a woman who is just beginning to build an online presence for her sewing business. She was having a tough time with social media because she just didn’t feel comfortable talking about herself all the time, yet that’s what platforms like Instagram…
Book Review: Different by Youngme Moon
Several things are special about this book. First is how I came to get it. For the five years that Chad Dickerson was CEO of Etsy I used Twitter to get in touch with him. It’s hard to make contact with a busy CEO, especially a CEO of a public company and especially when you’re…
Where Does Etsy’s First Billion Dollar Quarter Leave Indie Craft?
Indie craft was fueled by this radical idea that we could take traditional craft skills and reclaim them for our own time. We could infuse new life into traditional ‘women’s work,’ bringing it into a modern context, making it relevant to our lives now. Indie craft fairs were places to share this vision with a…
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