More Sewing to Sell, Take Your Handmade Business to the Next Level: 16 New Projects to Make & Sell!

by Virginia Lindsay

Take your handmade business to a truly professional level with practical advice from industry experts! Best-selling author Virginia Lindsay teaches you how to sell your handmade items for a real profit. This hands-on guide to the sewing business includes 16 new sewing patterns, all copyright- and royalty-free, ready to customize for craft fairs or online shops. Make the most of your fabric, time, and resources when selling handmade totes, aprons, quilts, and more!

Genres: Nonfiction, Business, Sewing, Crafts

128 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 2018

About the author

Virginia Lindsay is a self taught sewer and lover all things fabric. She is the author of the popular sewing blog, Gingercake and designer behind the PDF pattern shop, Gingercake Patterns and Design. She has designed 16 sewing patterns and has several published by Simplicity. She has done many craft shows and sews for her online shop, gingercakesews.etsy.com

Virginia is the mother of 4 and is happily married to her husband, Travis. She lives outside of Pittsburgh in Freeport, PA. Her kids inspire her everyday and she spends lots of time playing cards, watching soccer, throwing the baseball and listening to piano practicing. When she is not taking care of her big family, you will find her taking walks outside, vegetable gardening and sewing away in her home sewing studio.

Learn more about Virginia at gingercake.org.

Reviews

[OneDayI'll · Rating 4 out of 5]

A sample of random projects you could possibly sell at small markets or online. Mostly bags of various kinds. You need a solid understanding of your machine and how to use it with various fabrics. There's leathers (or pleathers), denims and other fabrics that will use different needles and threads. So, definitely not friendly for the beginners.

[Atlantis · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are free patterns in here but other than that I don’t think this breaks the mold on any number of resources for selling handmade goods. I didn’t read the first one but would be curious to know if patterns were the same/ different.

[Serenity · Rating 2 out of 5]

Eh. It had some pretty basic stuff in here and I didn't really like the patterns but it was okay.

[Rachel B]

The author offers some good advice on finding your niche and customers in the handmade marketplace.

I enjoyed reading the interviews with established craft business owners, but I would have loved more photos - of the creators themselves and their products.

It was so thoughtful of the author to include patterns for projects without placing any kind of limit on the number readers can sell! I love the headbands and think they'll be perfect for my young nieces to make.

Sadly, there were a lot of typos.

[Charity (Booktrovert Reader) · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first 48 pages the author give pratical advice on how to sell handmade project and how to market them. Lots of skim the surface advice. I did appreciate that included successful craft sellers and their advice in growing their business. If you are not familiar with this business, this is not a bad book to start with. But if you are already familiar with the process of having a handmade business, this may help you in certain areas that could grow your business.

The rest of the book is just handmade items ideas, how to sew them and roughly how much they sell.

[Alexander · Rating 1 out of 5]

The business information overlaps mostly, although not entirely, with the first book. As for the patterns, a lot of them were variants of the same patterns shown in the first book with a few new ones. I think it would have been better to combine both books into one.

[Carolyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has many good projects, and step by step advice for setting up and running a business.

[Ashley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some good advice in this book!

[Debra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another winner from the author of “Sewing to Sell”. I’ve already marked a few projects to try for my Etsy shop.

[Sonja · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun projects! Will give some of them a try.

[Mckinley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Business advice along with several sewing projects.

[Mandy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Marketing and promotional info was useful. Don't buy it for the patterns alone as you are likely to be disappointed, it is helpful for selling not so much making.