Another Craft Business Ideas for Moms

Aside from blogging,I also have other sources of income. Since I can't depend on the earnings of my blogs from advertisers, I still want more. Blogging is not a full time task, I just need an hour a day to maintain it, so I still have a lot of free time left in  a day and none of these would be wasted because I  my have my sewing machine.

I am not a sewer by profession, I don't even have formal training in sewing. But I love sewing so much, the desire to fabricate clothes comes from the heart. They say it's given and comes out naturally as a talent. Before it was just a hobby, I used to make dresses for my girls as well as shorts and skirts.Then after realizing it, I'm beginning to deeply learn more about sewing, until I found my self enjoying, making different fabric products and selling them online. This is why knowledge about craftng is very important, it serves as a tool to use in your everyday life and if you prefer to enter a craft business.

At first,I just posted my finished product photos of my kid's dresses at sulit.com, now olx.com. Then inquiries came flowing into my inbox. I learned to deal online, got familiarized with the flow of online selling. Although not all inquiries are from serious clients, most of them are spam but I still had successful deals online. Selling online is one of my sources of extra income, I just had to monitor my email inbox to respond to inquiries regularly and quickly

I'm just  lucky to have aspiring models in the house so I saved a lot in paying models to wear my finished products. The dresses are my own designs, I made them for my two little girls. The pajamas are customer's order,I just posted them here to show some supporting images for this post. I even made that pot holder and sale it for 20php/pc. The best seller among my products is the bed sheet and pillow cases set.Why? because I sell the most affordable bed sheet set in town plus the wide range of fabrics choices.

Shorts are very easy to make. I just prepared a carton pattern so I would have a standard size for all ages. What's so good about my hobby is I can save a lot of money for my kid's dress and shorts, I saved for my bed sheets and rags and at the same time I can do some business out of it.

Aside from selling finished products, I also sell plain, virgin fabrics. Most of my customers are tailors,sewers and shops. I get whole sale products from a big fabric store near by. I didn't have to stock fabrics, all i have to do is to have a file of sample photos of fabrics in my computer so if anyone asks for a sample, I could immediately email them some. The most important thing you have to do in selling products online is that you have to respond to inquiries immediately they'll stay and wait until you close and finish the deal.

Simple Steps in Making cute kiddie dress

It's so exciting to dress our kids with beautiful and colorful kiddie dress. I always want my kids to look stand out in every occasion or activity they're attending. Since buying kiddie dress is now so expensive, It's so practical to make on our own for our kids. Sewing and designing a kiddie dress is not as difficult as everyone thinks,it's just another DIY procedure to make.It's just simple as ABC. All you need to do is follow right directions. The image above is the dress i made for my one year old daughter. The fabrics i used in this project are cotton with embroidered flower designs which i bought for php 150/yard and the ribbon and lining was gina fabric which is only php30/yard. I used 1 yard for the dress and 1 yard for the lining.

I'm not a professional sewer, I don't even have professional training here but I'm a self proclaimed fashion designer for kids. I only get ideas and instruction from a friend and I'm able to create cute kiddie dresses  for my daughters.

Now let's prepare the materials to be used in this project.

Materials:

• printed fabric
• gina fabric for lining and ribbon
• scissor
• sewing machine
• string and needle for sewing

Procedure:

• Firs t step is measuring the body parts. Measure the shoulder width, breast, arm, shoulder to waist height, waist to knee height and and waist.
• Note down all the measurements and make a paper pattern.
• Using your paper pattern, cut your fabrics with the exact pattern's measurement. 

Top Front

• Cut the top-front with measurement indicated in the image above. You need to make a duplicate cut using gina fabric this will serve as a lining.
• In reverse position,attach the cotton fabric with the gina fabric lining.

Top Back

• Our top back is divided in to two parts to give space for the zipper. There's an allowance for stitching.
• connect the cotton and gina fabrics.
• Attaching the cotton and gina fabrics, sew the neck and arm parts.
• attach the zipper

Skirt lining (gina fabric) This will serve as the lining of the skirt. It is a simple square cut enough to make comfortable moves.

Ribbon -simply cut 70 inches long and 5 1/2 width gina fabric. This will be attached and sew together with the upper and lower part of the dress. You have to mark the middle of the ribbon and sew it starting in the middle of the front waist of the dress. This is to make an equal length of the ribbon.

• Sew the raffles to attach to the skirt's lining. Sewing raffles is a simple folding stroke.
• Make sure to stitch the raffles properly by folding while sewing. The more fold you make is the better wide raffle result.
• Make 3 layers of raffles
• leave a space for the zipper at the back of the skirt.

Connecting the top back and front and the skirt

• connect the shoulders. If you knew how to stitch properly, you will then know how to keep the connect point in between the linings.
• connect the to to skirt and attach the top's excess zipper to the skirt
• connecting them maybe difficult, you have to insert the middle of the ribbon to the front top together with the first layer of the raffles

we're done!!!