Business Tips

The good news is that while you might want hundreds of thread colors, you don’t need them to successfully start a longarm business!

There are loads of quilters out there looking for a machine quilter to work on their tops. So how do you help them find you? How do you get your small business noticed?

Whether you quilt professionally or just for yourself, when you decide to say “yes” to someone who has asked you to quilt her quilt, lots of responsibility also comes your way.

We asked Carrie Radloff, business development manager at Red Thread, to share answers to some of the most common questions they receive about financing a longarm quilting machine.

In this article we will look at how to price out your quilting service based on the total square yards found in a quilt top. Our previous article in this series focused on how to price out quilting based on the square inch.

Even if you never intend to quilt for anyone but yourself, it pays to spend a little time thinking about how you might structure a quilting business if you buckle in a weak moment and say “yes” to someone begging you to quilt for them.

While owning your own longarm quilting business can be all of that and more, starting up your small business can be intimidating. After all, we all want to be paid a fair wage for our labor but how do you determine what that should be?

For machine quilters who work for others, those are famous (or maybe infamous) words!

If starting a quilting business is one of your long-term goals, here are a few tips to get you started down the right path.