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Article #97: Machine Quilting Can Turn a Hobby Into A Business

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What is machine quilting? It is using a control for the more personal touches
machine to sew a quilt together. Think in that will make your quilts something that
terms of a very large sewing machine that can be handed down.
is very flexible. If you have already There are websites and online forums that
been making quilts by hand and giving you can contact about your quilting
them to friends and relatives you may machines and quilting business for futher
want to explore going a step further. You advice. You don't have be alone in the
may want to take the plunge and start process of starting and building your
selling your wares. business.
So how does one transition from making One of the best, and least expensive,
quilts totally by hand to using a ways for people to find out that you are
machine? For the small shop that does one there and what your product is to
quilt at a time and still wants to retain participate in local craft and hobby
the more personal touch there are manual fairs or shows. There are probably a
quilting machines. They allow you to number of nearby craft shows where you
create quilts that are very personal and can set up a table and be lucky enough to
still allow you to have the freedom to sell all the quilts you brought with you.
let your imagination run wild with your That will let people see and touch your
creations. In turn, going to a machine quilts so they can see the quality of the
versus doing the work totally by hand quilts for themselves.
will allow you to increase your This will give credibility to your quilts
production. in ways that advertising and the internet
Looking further down the road, if your can never do. Once people begin to know
hobby/business keeps growing, you may your quilts and their quality, they will
want to look into getting a computerized begin to spread the word to their friends
quilting machine. With this, you can and relatives.
program in all the information about the The principles of marketing and
quilt you are making and it will do the advertising will hold the same for
rest for you. quilting businesses as it does for any
You can certainly count on there being other type of hobby/craft business. You
manufacturers that create the machines to will need to define your target
any level possible. customers. Then figure out the best ways
A good quality quilt is something that of reaching them while staying within
everyone loves and hands down from one your budget. Don't underestimate the
generation to the next. Normally it power of "word-of-mouth" advertising.
would take a long time to make a quilt Many successful craft entrepreneurs have
that people will want to pass on to their found that having parties at their own
kids. With the use of quilting machines, homes or those of friends or relatives
you can dramatically increase the number provides more than enough business for
of quilts you can make. With the manual them.
quilting machine, you have greater






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