Ways To Make Extra Income Sewing At Home

You can create sewing jobs from home if you have a sewing machine and a few basic sewing supplies. There are a lot of people that do not have the time nor knowledge to fix their own clothing. Oftentimes these torn clothes end up in the trash or being donated. Offering a mending service to people could save them a lot of money.

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Many people wont take their clothes to a dry cleaner or tailoring business because they feel they will be overcharged. Would anyone want to pay 10 dollars to have a t-shirt mended? People will bring you their basic mending if you entice them with a basic mending service at a cheap rate. Both you and the customer will be happy, you will make money and the customer will save money.

Start by making a flyer. This can be made simple and cheap with a word processing program like Microsoft word. Make sure to list what you are willing to mend, ie: t-shirts, dress shirts, missing buttons, torn seams on pants, etc. and don’t forget to specify your cost for doing so. For instance, your fees may be different for mending torn jeans, replacing missing buttons on dress shirts or fixing a tear in a shirt.

Make copies and place them on as many community boards as you can. Community boards can be found in grocery stores, community colleges, libraries, at your local City Hall or even churches. Create tear offs at the bottom of the flyer with your name, phone number and use a phrase like “cheap mending.” Sometimes people tear these off, but later forget what they were even for. By placing “affordable mending” or “inexpensive mending” on your tear off, you are guaranteed that people will not forget.

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Another really great idea is to include a pick-up and drop-off service, however that’s totally up to you. It will take away from your mending time but it could get you a lot of clients. Remember why you are starting this job from home in the first place because this will also take your time away from home as well.

You can also go a step further and offer a tailoring service if you are good with a sewing machine and have different types of sewing supplies. Tailors can do more than just mend. Tailors can alter clothes, which is taking in or letting out clothing and sometimes can even make clothes. It is another skill you can add to your home business. There are so many different types of sewing jobs from home.

You need an area where you can perform all of your work if you want to start an at-home tailor business. Tailors usually have a lot of equipment and need a lot of space. Don’t forget also that a client will need a private area to try on a dress for altering, instead of in your living room in front of your family.

Nevertheless, you won’t need a lot of sewing knowledge to start one of the many sewing jobs from home, just some mending skills and simple marketing.