Trying to Start up a Quilting Business
Since the start of May I have been working toward starting up a business making quilts, it has been a rocky startup, but so far I think I’m getting there. I’ve been making quilts for family and myself for years, and now I am planning to turn that toward a second income source.
I’m not about to give up my writing, but I need to get another source of income if I want to ever stand a chance of owning my parent’s home. So, enter the quilts. Which is actually a very fitting business for trying to earn money for the house, since I got into quilting by making a quilt for my mom for Christmas one year.
I think that she would be very encouraging of me pursuing quilting as a home business. And I will need to pursue it from home, since the plans I had for participating in the Saturday Market in my local town seems to be more of a hassle than potential profit at this point. $25 each time I want to set up there to sell, with only a small handful of fellow vendors and half the number of people stopping in at the market. I would love to go every weekend, but between the low return on investment and the hassle of getting someone on the weekends that wants to hang out with dad so he does not have to go to the market from 9am to 7pm…. ::shakes head::: It is just much easier to run the business from home with an online storefront.