An Amazing Assortment of Tutorials

I started off just posting this in one of my Swap-bot groups, but felt like I wanted to share with you guys as well. It’s all good stuff by some very talented peeps. Happy creating!

Baby stuff…

SewMamaSew baby tutes
The purl bee list of baby tutes
Prudent baby tutes

Clothing…

Tea Rose Home mostly alters clothing
Alisa Burke skirt
Yoga Pants

Home décor…

The purl bee list of home tutes
Allisa Jacobs tutes and some off site links
A wreath idea. I think this would be great for displaying all those ATC’s

Fun Crafts…

The purl bee list of accessory tutes
Cathe Holden’s tutes
Paper Cakes Finds does a DIY post
A little of everything at How About Orange
Everything Lolly does is amazing. And she likes teal! (I love teal)
Prudent baby does more than baby stuff
mmm Crafts tutes

Bags…

The purl bee list of bag tutes
U-handbag tutes
Zipper pouch tutorial

Embroidery…

BadBird free embroidery patterns
Crayon tinted embroidery and a very sweet free pattern
Feeling stitchy has a compiled list of freebies
Urban Threads Tutorials, you don’t need to embroider to do these though

I also recommend following most of these blogs. Only a few aren’t on my blog roll through Google Reader.

Next baby step

I have an appointment tonight with a friend/photographer. We’re gonna bust out some photos of my brick and mortar stuff. She knows lighting and staging, and she’s awesome to boot, so this should be fun.

We may even photograph my new product line. I think it’s ready. I’m just not ready to announce it as the thing I’m doing right now (maybe next week – ha!). But the things I’ve been making have been turning out pretty good quality. I will be listing them once I figure out pricing.

The pricing obstacle is huge. Some of my items are hand embroidered – which takes a long time. A small project can take hours (and hours and hours…). It’s just hard to price what it’s worth and expect people to pay that.

So, in the end, there may be more machine embroidered items than hand embroidered. My plans for some hand embroidered buttons I made (posted pics on twitter) requires a lot of hand embroidery on the item they’re attached to. I suppose those can be my couture items – every artist should have them. I just know they’ll be my slower moving product (like a turtle in a snow storm). Machine embroidery will offer a different look and a more affordable item. Hopefully the difference will be apparent.

Next week is coming up fast. After this photography session, I have photo editing to do and descriptions to write. Then, list list list. So, my projected date of “by next month” (lots of wiggle room there) is working out well. I love it when I can keep up with a plan (no matter how vague and wiggly). Don’t you?

Hope your day is awesome. Happy crafting!