A Web Site or Blog for your Crafting
March 24, 2009 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Home & Living
Nowadays, most crafters have a web site, or at least a blog, for their hobby or business. It’s really almost essential that you develop a blog if you’re expanding your hobby into a business.
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Some craftspeople start out with a blog, as my daughter has at Meandering Threads and then may develop a web site where they offer items for sale. Perhaps you simply enjoy sharing your crafting heritage, as I do at Tales of the Trails End Quilters. Here I relate stories about the quilters in my family.
Blogging gives crafters a place where others can view your work (especially if you use photos) and get to know you. It opens the door to happenings in the crafting world…or quilting world in my daughter’s case.
Your blog/web site, may not be at the top of search engines, at least initially, but you have a place where other crafters and your customers can learn more about you and what you’re doing…whether it’s making and selling items, teaching workshops, designing unique pieces, writing books, producing related items such as note cards, pictures, puzzles, or selling fabric and other supplies.
Why don’t you let me know about your blog or web site and how it has helped and inspired you. Often, blogs simply are fun to maintain and keep us in touch with other artists, crafters, quilters and fabric divas.
Hi Mary Emma (what a pretty name!),
I originally started my blog because I found that keeping my web site current with new fibers that I had to sell was cumbersome. The idea was to be able to finish a fiber item, take a photo, and put it up on my blog.
However, as my attitude toward my part time fiber business becomes more relaxed and I spend more time in my own creative pursuits, I’ve started posting photos of my own projects. I find that the feedback that I get is helpful and encourages me to continue.
I also like to post photos of my animals so that those who are far-removed have an opportunity to enjoy them too.
Diane
Thank you, Diane, for stopping by Blisstree and reading my post…and for sharing the information about your web site and blog experiences. I’m pleased, too, that you find blogging is fun and helpful.
Incidentally, my name comes from my mom and her mother. My mom’s name was Mary and my grandmother’s Emma. I’ve discovered that both names, Mary and Emma are making a comeback nowadays.