Continuing the conversation around pattern making this week but this time it’s all about starting a home sewing pattern business. Last week I spoke more in depth about my background and answered your questions on becoming a pattern maker, industry specific. This week it’s about the ins and outs of our little home sewing world and offering you the advice I wish someone had given me in the beginning. Heads up, it’s a pretty long one. I had so many good questions and wanted to answer as many as possible so if you’re reading this in email format you may get cut off. Recommend going over to the Substack app for the full picture. Before I get into answering those questions, we are of course coming up on the end of the year and with that the next paid subscriber pattern is just a few weeks away! That issue will be extra special as it will be the 1st Annual Daughter Judy HOLIDAY READER! This is a digital magazine with tips, recipes, holiday guides, a peek into what’s coming in 2025 and of course the center fold aka the pattern. I’m super excited to get this first reader out and hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed putting it together. Available December 10th. OK shameless marketing over, onto my launch story before getting into your questions. Full transparency, I had no idea indie sewing patterns was a thing until maybe 5 years ago. Because of my career in pattern making, I didn’t really have the need to buy a pattern for years, and back when I was buying them it was really just the Big 4 bought from Joanns. I can’t remember exactly how I was shown but I learned that an old client of mine (Rachel Comey) licensed her patterns to Vogue Patterns....