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By: Carrie

Carrie — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:29:34 +0000

I think I’m just making the deadline to enter the drawing! I don’t currently sell any of the crafts I make. A handmade craft-business I bought from and like is Sticky Wicket craft kits.

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:06:56 +0000

I sell personalized gifts for moms, babies and kids and handmade clothing. I have recently discovered your blog and LOVE it! So helpful. Please enter me in the drawing!

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:42:51 +0000

I’m so happy I found your blog. (Thanks to a visit at PinkLemonadeBoutique). I want to sell items I sew online and am in the product development stages at the moment, so I appreciate the information I’ve been reading written by you and the interview with Lisa Billings. Thanks so much!

By: Missy

Missy — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:52:33 +0000

How great is this giveaway! I, too, am crazy about Amy Butler but had no idea she had created a soak!
I design and create children’s clothing, I use vintage patterns and inspiration and vintage or vintage reproduction textiles in my designs. My website – http://www.laniepaige.com. I am joining with a dear friend, Liz, to design and create a new line of simple, classic separates for girls – http://www.sweetfunkyvintage.com
Missy

By: Donna

Donna — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:46:20 +0000

I’m in the changing what I do right now. Previously I made fleece kids ponchos supplemented by fleece blankets but so many people are doing the fleece thing and fleece takes up so much room. Right now I enjoy going to craft fairs and browsing etsy.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:00:30 +0000

Wow, Sola sounds spectacular. I hope I win! I haven’t started selling yet, I have to build up my inventory. I make small tapestries and elegantly designed stands or hangers for them, so once they are purchased there’s no worry about how to present them. To take the strain off my shoulders (from hunching over the loom — they are palm- and hand-sized weavings, nothing larger than a paperback novel) I crochet, knit, and embroider. Much of the crocheting and knitting is felted, and then further embelished. Sometimes it’s a bag, sometimes it’s a plushie, sometimes it’s a wrap or other wearable! Often it’s a gift. I’ve also been recycling old fabric (sheets, clothing, table linens) into other objects. It’s fun and a good challenge to find a new purpose for disused items. Often these “new” things (quilts, plushies, newer clothes) will be auctioned off for charity. My bike team has just raised over $43,000 for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and my crafting was one of the ways I was able to contribute. Our next event will be a Relay for Life in the spring. I’m already planning for that!

By: melissa

melissa — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:34:21 +0000

i sell many beautiful chicana wonders. i specialize in making jewelry (of all sorts), i make many things inspired by anything to do with my loves as a chicana…..frida….tacos…folklorico….mexica…

By: Lovie

Lovie — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:55:38 +0000

I wholesale to a lovely website called Inspireco. Whatever I dream up the lovely owner Amy buys. Right now, we are working on something really really special and hope to have it for sale in November

By: michelle

michelle — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:37:34 +0000

oh, i hope that random number generator picks me! Thanks for the opportunity!

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:48:03 +0000

Wonderful post! Thank you! As always, you’re informative & fun.

I had a b&m for 20 years (an 1881 General Store & Cafe) and have only recently joined this wonderful online malay. I started out with the intent to sell only my quilts. I truly did. As the months go on, though, I find my interests … AND my customers’ requests … far too varied to be restricted in that way.

So I chose a word, two actually, and work all my items into those two: “comfort” and “lovely”. It’s become my shop’s signature and its one defining test. So ~ what does ThreeFrenchHens.Etsy.com sell?

Quilts ~ Comforts ~ All Things Lovely

By: Julsey

Julsey — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:45:51 +0000

I sell handpainted yarn at my etsy shop. Its empty now though…getting back to the dyepot SOON!!!

By: Surviving

Surviving — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:40:04 +0000

I sell stitchmarkers.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:43:05 +0000

Awesome blog. I just found it while surfing. I would love to be entered in your draw.

I have loved making all kind of crafts since I was a little girl. I’ve been a am a soft sculpture artist since 2003 and make adult collectible teddy bears. I sell them on Ebay and my website. http://www.beckoningbears.com

Crafting feeds my soul !
♥ Tammy

By: mimi

mimi — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:22:14 +0000

I have a very young craft business also making handbags and you have been such an inspiration and a mentor to me even though we have never actually met. I have begun to implement the things you have blogged about in promoting businesses.

I am pleased to say that I have my first meeting with a lady who owns a bridal boutique in a town nearby who is interested in stocking some of my bridal and mother-of-the-bride bags. I’m seeing her on friday. I have a week to grow a thick enough skin for her to say “Sorry, don’t like them/not what I was looking for/you’re rubbish/you call that stitching” or anything else along those lines. Then again, you never know, she may well love the whole lot and buy it off me there and then!

(I ll settle for sale or return though!!!! ha ha ha)
thanks lisa for such good advice, and for being such a great, reliable supplier.
mimi
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By: DBrown

DBrown — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:44:12 +0000

I sell both vintage brass style jewelry and sterling silver jewelry in my etsy shop.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:41:38 +0000

Currently I sell bags and pouches. I prefer to use organic and deconstructed kimono as I don’t like pesticides and chemical sprays. In a few weeks I also hope to have some t-shirts on my Etsy shop too.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:05:04 +0000

I’ve had a crafty business for a while now making personalised baby blankets, quilts, Christmas stockings etc. Like many other people I am deeply into making bags at the moment too. As a really tiny, small business I agree about the customer service thing. I love creating and spend most of my spare time sewing. Recently discovered blogging and etsy. Who knew there were so many fantastic crafters out there! I love this new site as well as uhandblog and your generosity of spirit.

By: Carol

Carol — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:14:52 +0000

I don’t currently sell crafty items, but I have sold vintage and retro items. I am thinking of a fiber related business like handspun yarn and possibly another separate business selling knitted and/or sewn purses (for which Amy Butler fabric is perfect).

By: Meredith

Meredith — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:17:59 +0000

Love the tips!

I’m hoping to open an Etsy shop after the holidays with handmade goods, especially crocheted goods like cozies.