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     Thimble New Here Username: Thimble Post Number: 1 Registered: 07-2010 Posted From: 86.151.212.224 |
Hi everyone nice to see a lot of people like me.I started working from home because i didnt won to leave my children.I make hand made curtains for shops ,now im getting more of my own work.Work is quite at the moment. | ||
| Trv Advanced Member Username: Trv Post Number: 66 Registered: 03-2007 Posted From: 95.146.193.96 |
Hello Thimble, welcome along - hope business picks up for you soon | ||
| Thimble New Here Username: Thimble Post Number: 2 Registered: 07-2010 Posted From: 86.151.212.224 |
Thankyou Trv ,i have had to take a parttime job ,just for now,guess what in?Machinist making loose covers.Im still working from home as well.Having different ideas,i wont stop sewing ,ill change what i sew.I have just made sail blinds the customer loved them,i think i will get more orders.I am also making wedding chair covers ,and thinking of hiring out. I joined to talk to other minded people,the factory girls do not get me? | ||
| Supergabs New Here Username: Supergabs Post Number: 2 Registered: 07-2010 Posted From: 86.18.85.134 |
Hi Thimble, I've just joined and I just wanted to say I really admire your talent. I have just bought a sewing machine and am too afraid to use it - what a wuss I am  I wish you well and hope things pick up for you. It sounds like you are doing the all right things to keep going  All the best. Gaby | ||
| Millysoo Forum Specialist Username: Millysoo Post Number: 2966 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 90.213.136.222 |
Sock monkeys! I had to say that. Its just that the two styles of pattern are all over the internet for free, and if you've got a three pack of stripy men's socks from Primark, and the stuffing from a pound shop pillow, then that's all of £6 (tops) laid out for hours of fun practising little tails and little feet. They also stack up as useful table fillers at fundraisers.... :-) | ||
| Thimble New Here Username: Thimble Post Number: 4 Registered: 07-2010 Posted From: 81.155.30.137 |
hi gaby thanks for that,I have just posted a letter in my part time job to quit,i know i was lucky o get the job,but for 22hours i can work at home for 6hours .I also felt like a mouse and waiting for the bells for my food.I feel gilty for not letting them have notice,but they cannot get machinist, but at £6 an hour what do they what.Theyll be talking about me for days.Im free again . My work has come in fast hopefully will stay ,i will put more effort into my freelance work ,i realize i like being at home. Thankyou for your comments i would show you how. If I can help you with anything good luck. Thankyou Millysoo ill look into that. Thimble | ||
| Millysoo Forum Specialist Username: Millysoo Post Number: 2967 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 90.212.54.14 |
Oh Thimble oops! Sorry for causing confusion. You are obviously a professional and a dab hand with a sewing machine - I was thinking of Gaby, who said she was 'a wuss' about getting to grips with a sewing machine. On the other hand, our local upholstery fabric shop dresses the window with pincushion chickens etc out of curtain fabric. I just assumed you'd be looking for much bigger projects. I see you like to be creative and to bring your own sense of design to an item, to be able to 'claim' it (unlike factory girls who, I guess, run a machine over whatever they are told and don't have that personal satisfaction). Still, for bread and butter, I can't help thinking that for all the people who buy curtains on tick, off a catalogue company, there must be a high percentage who wish they knew someone to take an inch off the product, once they've seen it hung. Do you advertise bespoke alterations at the hardware store and the post office? I'm thinking of making the idea noticed when people go to buy curtain poles or fixings, or where they have to go to make returns. I hope you do make contact with some more designer types here, to bounce off each other's creativity. You've almost certainly thought of this already, but if you are doing well with wedding chair covers then the wedding chair ties, table runners, table centres, place mats and all the coordinating fabric items might be easy add-ons - its so hard to exactly match a colour or fabric unless the bride gets it all from the same place....) :-) | ||
| Supergabs New Here Username: Supergabs Post Number: 3 Registered: 07-2010 Posted From: 86.18.85.134  |
Sounds like you're going to do really well. Nothing beats working at what you love doing, using what you do well and doing it in the place you prefer to be. All the very best to you  | ||
| Thimble Newish Member Username: Thimble Post Number: 6 Registered: 07-2010 Posted From: 81.155.30.137 |
Thankyou all people.Good news all my my trade contacts wont me home i have been given some contacts,im going to see a lady who is reopening a shop .I rang her and we got on well Im going to make some aprons for the shop,plus i will suggest i can make samples.Idont know if i should offer for free or half price.I usually find once im in ,ill be ok. | ||
| Millysoo Forum Specialist Username: Millysoo Post Number: 2969 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 90.212.54.59 |
Wonderful news! Finger, toes and everything that crosses, crossed for you. :-) | ||
| Thimble Newish Member Username: Thimble Post Number: 7 Registered: 07-2010 Posted From: 81.155.30.137 |
Thankyou millyso i never realised how much i like being at home.Having people that know what i can do.One of my other friend was happy because other work coming in i can help her.thanks again | ||
| Thimble Newish Member Username: Thimble Post Number: 9 Registered: 07-2010 Posted From: 86.132.180.115 |
Thankyou all for your support.I have just put an advertisement in a local paper that covers a large area.I usally work for the shops but i will try it alone a bit more fingers crossed. | ||
| Millysoo Forum Specialist Username: Millysoo Post Number: 2970 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 90.212.54.50 |
Oooh! Fingers crossed! | ||
| Millysoo Forum Specialist Username: Millysoo Post Number: 2971 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 90.212.54.50 |
Oh - I just googled your name (we're the same county), and instantly found your website. That's beautiful! The level of work in the pin tucks and gathers along the top of those gold curtains is absolutely stunning. It would be nice to see a more distant view of the sail blinds to see their whole shape and effect on the look of the conservatory. All the shots seem dedicated to how the sales interrelate to each other, and the quality of the work, but nothing to let an untrained eye understand how much they billow into the room; how much of a statement they make. I'd also be scared to phone you up because that gold curtain header looks so high-class that I'd assume your work was very expensive. Its worth putting a link in your profile because people here will check it out. | ||
| Thimble Newish Member Username: Thimble Post Number: 10 Registered: 07-2010 Posted From: 86.141.131.124 |
hi millyso Thankyou for looking at my website,i could not get a better shot of the conservatory because its quite small. The nature of my trade is expensive ,but im cheaper than the shops i work for who take all the credit.I am being viewed by beverly hills US.As for the header on those gold curtains,the curtains were secondhand and too short ,so i added fabric and tucked the fabric where the seam was.The lady calls that room her ballroom . I would love to here from you ,your welcome to come for a coffee one day. |
