Professional Felt Crafter Draws Inspiration From Vintage Crafts

If you are thinking that crocheted potholders and lace trimmed magnets are crafts that might sell at your next craft show… think again.

Professional crafter’s know that you must follow the trends and produce products that customers want.

Making and selling simple homemade items is taking over the craft scene by storm. The items are new and inventive re-creations of styles and techniques from generations ago.

Creativity is paramount in the crafter world. Copy or use patterns without exuding your own creative style is death to a home based business.

This creative professional crafter shows us that an old medium, such as felt, can be used to create attractive, quaility merchandise. She can design one of a kind items or pump out inventory by using a systymatic approach.

The trick to creating inventory is: Creating in a mass produced atmosphere without loosing the one of a kind styling.

This article is a perfect read for those of you thinking about starting your own home based craft business.

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clipped from cathyofcalifornia.typepad.com just a little more than a year ago a friend heard about a new craft fair that was going to be held in the parking lot of a comic book store. of course we had to check it out. we enjoyed a yummy cupcake from the bake sale and i bought an adorable pincushion to give as a birthday gift and a super cute necklace for myself. we both had a blast that afternoon.