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Learn How to Sew - Its Not Just Your Hobby - Its Your Business
In most cases, if you want to learn how to sew, you simply pay for a lesson or class to learn a craft, an art, or pick-up a new hobby. It’s an opportunity to express your creativity, relax from work-related stress, and spend a little time making something with your hands.
From a business perspective, however, if you want to learn something new, the boss wants you to report on the profits. In other words, if they pay $20.00 for you to take a class, how soon will it be before you make a profit, $25.00? When will you make money or save money as a result of spending the extra money? What is the return on investment, ROI for short?
If you apply the same rules of business to your desire to learn how to sew, when would you make a profit from this new skill? How many opportunities would you have to earn or save money? Can you expect a large return on your investment?
One of the first things you can do, when you learn how to sew is save on alteration and repair costs. But, there is a bigger picture here. You can also open a business and earn money when you learn how to sew. Take a look at the short list below for starters:
Learn How to Sew
Sew fashionable clothes>Seamstress, Tailor, Dressmaker
Sew wedding dresses or special events>Specialty shops
Fashion Designer>Boutiques
Costume Designer
Monogram shirts, towels>Monogrammer
Sew curtains, drapes, bedding, pillows>Home Decorator
Sew baby clothes, blankets
Sew dog or pet clothes
Sew doll clothes, make stuffed animals
Teach others to sew>Sewing books, classes, schools
Alter ready-to-wear>Alterationist
Mending and repair specialists
Recycle old clothes, fabrics, socks
Quilting
Crafts, gifts
When developed, I can think of no other skill that opens the door to so many specialized and profitable career opportunities than the sewing industry. You can upgrade your basic skills to designer couture techniques to produce high-quality, professional looking clothes, and that can increase your ability to earn more money at home.
Can you see from the list of opportunities above that you can recover your initial investment over and over again? In other words, you have made an investment that lasts for a lifetime. The ultimate ROI…the maximum ROI!
Take a chance …Learn how to sew. It can take you into areas that you’ve never even dreamed of…
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Thelma Horton has a degree in Home Economics, and has taught hundreds of high school students and adults how to sew for the very first time. She has also sewn prom & wedding dresses, tailored suits and coats and altered ready-to-wear for her clients.
To help others learn how to sew, she offers free tips and techniques on her website at http://www.sew-it-yourself.com and authors two e-books, "Sew-It Like a Pro" and "Hem-It Yourself, Hem Finishes."
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