I want to start a children's fashion design business. I have read for hours and hours on the internet--ideas, advice, etc. I have found there just are not enough specifics and it is not all in one place. I spend more hours searching than reading.
So, I am starting this blog. Step by step how I am doing it. I am not a lawyer. I am not an expert. This blog will just tell how I am doing it. Please feel free to post your ideas and advice. I promise to read but not always listen. Sorry!
Why I chose babies and toddlers--
My daughter bought a pattern for a baby outfit, and spent hours copying the different sizes, buying the fabrics, pinning and cutting multiple outfits.
Then she opened a store front in February of 2011. She had a full time job, so she asked me to come and run the shop until her teaching assistant job ended in May.
I was there from the beginning. She built her closets. She rented a space. She painted the space. She ordered and purchased trendy clothes from the Internet. She opened.
She needed more stock but had a very limited budget. She brought in consigners. And she asked me to sew--a craft I have been doing for a lifetime plus I had taken sewing classes in college when a home ec degree required that a home ec teacher know how to sew.
She asked me to finish her baby projects. She handed me the box of cut out baby clothes ready to be sewn. I looked at the pattern. She had bought a pattern for knits but had purchased woven fabrics--a rookie or beginner mistake. The clothes could not be made. So I bought a pattern and $1 fabric from Walmart and began sewing for her shop.
One day a lady with a little girl came in. She saw what I was doing and suggested I make pillowcase dresses. I did and they sold.
A year and a half has passed. For various reasons, the shop has closed. I am almost 60. For even more reasons, I want a home based business. I must work. I must earn money. But, I do not want an 8-5 job.
I went into a baby shop to purchase my grandson a Valentine's gift. (February, 2012) I was having a conversation with the owner and mentioned that I sewed pillowcase dresses. She offered to buy some from me. Thus my home business has begun.
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