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Greetings from H&H Americas
I spent last week attending the h&h Americas conference in Chicago. If you’ve never heard of this one, I am not too surprised. It’s only 4 years old and it’s only open to craft business professionals (like shop owners). I’m not a shop owner but I do have a craft-based business and I am a member of the Craft Industry Alliance. I attended the conference with my Mastermind group, a small group of craft business owners (we have me, a quilt designer, a machine embroiderer, and a knitter/craft mom vlogger). We’ve been meeting for almost 4 years and decided [read more…]
Mini Tutorial: Making Price Signs for your Craft Fair Booth
I have learned that people don’t like to have to ask for prices when they are shopping at your art fair booth, so it’s important to have some kind of price signs that are easy to see. I have used all kinds of different methods for labeling my prices throughout the years: making one big sign, individual stickers, chalkboard signs, cute printed signs. I’ve learned that my very favorite is this one: drink coasters.
- You can get a package of hundreds of recycled paper drink coasters for not very much cost.
- They are easy to write on with colored sharpies.
Embroidering a Koala in 3 Minutes
I’ve been having a lot of fun embroidering an entire zoo full of animals. Here is a koala from start to finish. This took about 33 minutes to stitch and I have reduced it down to just under 3 minutes. It’s wool felt, embroidered with perle cotton onto a wool felt eyeglasses case. I drew the koala in Illustrator first and printed a pattern on freezer paper. This is easier for me than doing a pencil sketch because I can adjust the size to fit in exactly the space I need and I can reuse those pattern pieces again and [read more…]
Mini Tutorial: How to Tie a Square Knot
I use square knots often in class projects and I had a whole group recently that had never done one before so I thought I would make a very fast video tutorial. When I learned to tie a square knot in Girl Scouts a zillion years ago, we learned the mneumonic “left over right, right over left” to help remember the steps. In a class I took a few days ago she said “short over long, short over long”. Both of those work great!
Think to yourself “left over right, right over left” or “short over long” as you watch my [read more…]
Hi, I’m Becka.
Talking about fabric design, teaching, and the life and business of being an artist.
Teaching online and in person classes in embroidery, handcrafts, technology, fabric design and artist business skills. Co-author of The Spoonflower Handbook.
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