Getting Ahead of the Game by Preparing for the Holiday Season Now
Here are some concrete tasks you can work on over the next few weeks that will bring more people to your shop and convert them into customers.
Legal Building Blocks: The Consignment Agreement
A consignment agreement is important when you’re leaving your goods in the possession of an authorized third party to sell. Kiffanie Stahle walks you through the short form and long form agreements so that you can protect your products or artwork.
Threadymade Serves Up Pleated and Smocked Fashion Kits By Mail
Threadymade is a new craft kit company that provides pre-pleated and smocked fabrics for garment sewing at home
Creative Packaging Ideas for 2021
A round up packaging options for your craft business for 2021.
Choosing a Laser-Cutting Service
A round-up of laser-cutting services for quilting templates, acrylic rulers, or tags and other unique products to promote your business along with tips for working with laser cutting services.
The Ins and Outs of Selling Your Handmade Products with Uncommon Goods
Uncommon Goods is a catalog and website known for unique and quirky gifts. For makers, selling wholesale to Uncommon Goods can be a great opportunity to find a new, and large, audience.
SEWN Magazine: Stitched Together with Love
Roberta Wax profiles Michelle Morris, creator of SEWN Magazine, a fashion-forward, inclusive publication full of gorgeously photographed clothes and accessories, interviews with designers, and sewing tips and pattern resources.
2020 Trends in the European Craft Market, Looking Ahead to 2021
Representatives of a cross section of the European craft industry to weigh in on what changes they have seen in their business this year, and what trends they foresee for 2021.
CraftyMonkies Takes Luxury Sewing Retreats Online
CraftyMonkies pivots during COVID-19 from offering luxury sewing retreats to online workshops.
Buying and Wearing African Wax Prints: An Exploration
African wax prints are fabrics with a complex and nuanced history and, although they’re trending on the fashion runways, some consumers question whether wearing these garments is cultural appropriation.
Crafty Chica Brings Latinx Culture into the Craft Market
Crafty Chica Kathy Cano-Murillo spreads her “gospel of glitter” through her craft product lines, books, art, speeches and more.
Designing Plastic-Free Packaging
Could plastic-free packaging attract more customers to your craft product? Get tips from businesses that adopted sustainable packaging for their products.
Custom Packaging Manufacturers
Simple customizations to your packaging can help create a cohesive brand experience, help you save money on shipping costs, and protect your products in transit. Dive into our list of custom product packaging options to find the option that works best for your business.
How to Sell Body Care Products on Etsy
Selling beauty supplies online can be a great small business, but it requires complying with FDA safety guidelines and, if you want to sell on Etsy, you’ll need to follow the marketplace’s rules as well.
Clothworks Prints 1 Millionth Yard of American Made Brand Fabric
This year, Clothworks is celebrating its one-millionth yard of American Made Brand fabric, quilting cotton that’s manufactured entirely in the United States.
Homebound Makers Spur Craft Kit Boom
While COVID-19 has forced many businesses to close, online shops selling craft kits have seen skyrocketing sales.
Designer Lynda Kanase’s Journey From Unemployed to Craft Entrepreneur
Lynda Kanase’s experience as a graphic designer and product developer gave her the skills to develop a complete line of crafting tools, including stamps, dies, inks, stencils, brushes, even a die cutting machine, for her new business, i-crafter.
Knitrino is an App Poised to Disrupt the Knitting World
Knitrino is a new app that aims to disrupt the knitting pattern world by integrating all of the information a knitter needs including row-by-row pattern instructions, a progress keeper, a note-taking feature, and a colorwork option that shows color charts in the knitter’s selected yarn colors.
Crafters Make Custom Medical Device Covers, Giving Patients a Boost
Makers are crafting medical device covers that are fun and functional, pretty and sexy, blinged and personalized for everything from ostomy bags and PICC lines to slings, eye patches, even baby helmets.
Working With a Partner To Bring a New Notion To Market: Spot on Dot
Carolina Moore had an idea for a quilting notion so she partnered with a major distributor to get it manufactured and into shops.