Expert crafter, Lisa Comfort shares the secrets of her sewing passion. She guides you through all the basics of sewing by hand and machine, as well as providing you with the skills you need to follow her simple but stylish projects.

You can start a small business by taking advantage of your sewing skills. By offering services, such as clothing repair, custom tailoring, and button replacement, you can create a steady income with a business that has returning customers. You have the choice of starting as a home-based business or setting up a shop in a retail location. Your success will depend on the quality of your marketing and customer service, as well as the quality of your work. What you will find in this revised edition is everything else it takes to run your sewing and alterations business from home including business setup step-by-step in exact order, bookkeeping, taxes, business plan, business entity formation, policies to consider, skills assessment, how to prevail alongside the competition, tools of the trade, HOW MUCH MONEY you can make PLUS many juicy stories about my personal experience. An easy 100 page read you can explore this world and check it all out for yourself to see if it's a match and/or inspirational to your desires before you leap.

The creator of Gingercake Patterns shows you how to share your passion for sewing with the world by starting a successful home business. Maybe you started sewing just for fun. But now you’ve developed the skills and vision to turn your creative outlet into something more. Making the leap from hobbyist to professional can be intimidating—but Virginia Lindsay is here to help you get off the sidelines and sew your way to a job you truly enjoy. Drawing on her own experience, Lindsay guides you through every aspect of starting your own craft business, from finding your personal sewing style to creating a product line, identifying customers, equipping your studio, pricing and selling your work, marketing yourself, designing your own patterns, and handling the business and legal side of sewing. And that's not all! Virginia also shares 16 projects (all customer-tested) that you can personalize to start sewing and selling right now.

This book will be a priceless resource for those considering adventuring into the fashion industry, yet not knowing how or where to start. Comprised of detailed information, How to Start a Home-based Fashion Design Business will be a guide for the aspiring designer to plan and execute a successful home based business. This material will not only provide a fashion realm, but will show how to create additional revenue streams in the sewing field. This book will be the "one stop shop" for the small designer.

You can start a small business by taking advantage of your sewing skills. By offering services, such as clothing repair, custom tailoring, and button replacement, you can create a steady income with a business that has returning customers. You have the choice of starting as a home-based business or setting up a shop in a retail location. Your success will depend on the quality of your marketing and customer service, as well as the quality of your work. How To Start a Sewing Business is a simple and easy-to-apply book in which you will discover the essential first steps to take to start your business on the road to profit, in the shortest time possible.