Your Very Own Quilting Business: Make and Sell Quilted Accessories

Article by Penny Halgren

If you want to start a quilting business, but don’t really want to make actual quilts, you can still find a niche for you. How about selling quilted accessories?

Quilted accessories include a wide range of products: home décor, apparel, pet products, you name it!

In the home décor category, your business could make and sell quilted potholders and matching aprons with pockets that coordinate with the potholder pattern. Make and sell quilted oven mitts.

Table runners and mantel drapes are also popular quilted items for the home. Quilted placemats and coasters are other possiblities.

For a living room, den, bedroom, dining room or kitchen quilted wall hangings are popular. These can be custom made to coordinate with your client’s own interior colors and style.

For a guest room or bathroom, why not quilt covers for a tissue box or photo or mirror frame? Quilted pillowcases are also good sellers.

Take the idea of home décor to a smaller scale and perhaps your quilting business could be making quilted items for doll houses. Many collectors will pay top dollar to have their dollhouse beds accented with tiny little quilts. Such quilts would also be a niche business for baby dolls. Little girls love their dolls and many parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles would pay good money to have a special quilt made for a special doll!

Holidays open up a wide range of options for home décor as well. Keep that in mind if your quilting business will focus on home décor. Your quilting business could actually focus on holiday items.

Christmas ornaments, stockings, wall hangings, table decorations…the possibilities for that one holiday alone are endless! Imagine if your quilting business focused on all holidays.

For January, quilted décor featuring snowmen and snowflakes would be popular for the winter theme. February is Valentine’s Day. Focus for that holiday would be on quilted items with hearts, cupids, etc. March brings St. Patricks’ Day and Spring.

April is Easter, and brings another slew of quilted holiday items to mind. Baskets made from quilted strips of fabric would be gorgeous. Patchwork eggs stuffed to perfection would also be fun items.

May and June bring graduations along with Mother’s and Father’s days. These months are great for quilted photo frames or scrapbooks with a quilted cover.

July’s patriotic theme would be great inspiration for quilted home de’cor as well. August and September sends children (and teachers) back to school. Quilted notebooks, tote bags, pencil cases would be great accessories for those months. Halloween and Thanksgiving also offer endless possibilities for home d&eacutecor, too. Use your imagination!

Quilted apparel could include a number of items as well. Belts and headbands are popular accessories. Quilted jackets are a higher ticket item you could make and sell. You could add small quilt blocks to simple cardigans as pockets. Combine your jackets with a matching quilted cap or tote bag and increase your price accordingly!

Other quilted accessories you could make include cell phone holders, lip gloss pouches, and eye glass cases. Coin purses and wallets are other ideas for quilted accessories. Purses and tote bags are also very popular items that translate nicely into quilted products.

The pet niche can be so much fun. People of all ages love to buy things for their pets. For cats and dogs, quilted carrying cases are good sellers. Pet beds are another top item.

Pet clothing is also very popular. Small dogs generally need the added warmth of a coat in the winter. Quilted coats, jackets and shawls are good sellers for pet clothing. Create a package deal by including the quilted coat or jacket plus a matching quilted hat.

No matter which niche you choose, any of these areas would offer great sales opportunities for your own quilting business.

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Acquire Care Of Those Keepsake Quilts!

Article by Quilt Care

More than the decades quilts have turn out to be cherished objects that are provided and acquired with really enjoy. In simple fact they are extremely almost never employed to present warmth but numerous people give them as gifts simply because they have arrive to symbolize some thing extremely private. In olden days it used to be pretty commonplace, but the scarcity of duvet makers these days only adds luxury and sentiment to quilts. For this reason a lot of people really enjoy keepsake quits! Consider about it, what far better present to give a newborn infant than a keepsake duvet that he/she will have permanently to don’t forget the quite first day they were definitely wrapped in adore?In olden situations quilts have been really used to continue to keep warm in cold climate and many were definitely also utilized as bedspreads. And even individuals that were used and laundered several instances over can even now be observed displayed in properties today with that additional sentiment of the past.Quilts are typically created by salvaging fabric from clothing and other sources and the sewing of these pieces of textile collectively to form 1 large item of cloth. There was no set pattern that the quilt adopted. It virtually was 1 item of textile sewed on to an additional right up until the desired dimension of textile was attained. When the fabric was the dimension that was preferred by the quilt maker, a filing was attached, which usually was a worn blanket or an economical batting material. The end end result was a two sided duvet that was then held jointly by hand sewn stitches or by tying the quilt with yarn.Numerous individuals, simply because of the really like and hard work that went into creating these quilts are likely to maintain them close to as extremely sentimental valuables. And with good cause as well; this kind of things are so uncommon to find!!Some of them are pretty costly and really stylish. And these are the types that are generally granted as infant presents. But even these are not applied for functional functions per se, but are largely displayed on the walls of nurseries or as loved ones valuables elsewhere in the property.A excellent concept to is to acquire more compact quilts and sew them together to make one particular big duvet that you can in fact use as a decorative cover.Not extremely several people realize the accurate beauty of keepsake quilts but they are truly useful and they are some thing that is maybe of better sentimental worth than a photo album.

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