Act One: Shame
A lot of people have already gone out of business due to CPSIA but they’re ashamed to admit it. They blame themselves because they know there was some slop in their operations and if they’d had it together, this wouldn’t have happened to them.…
Month: March 2009
A licensing deal gone wrong
I know that in spite of my many warnings to the contrary, a lot of people are hot for licensing deals. In that vein, I found a cautionary tale in the form of a series of blog posts which provides a detailed description of a licensing deal gone wrong.…
How to sew faster pt.3
This entry could be summarized by saying maybe industry doesn’t sew so fast after all. Pam gives me the opening I was looking for with her comment from Tuesday:
The black shirt most recently pictured on my site took me about an hour to actually sew, after cutting and fusing.
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How to sew faster pt.2b
I realize I failed to highlight three critical points I didn’t say in Tuesday’s entry.
- Regarding Equipment: Did anyone notice that I didn’t mention industrial machine speed as being a critical matter in reducing sewing time? Machine speed is relatively inconsequential except for such items with long straight seams or hems.
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