The Quest for My Product

Since my first, and only, post I've been having incredible difficulty finding the product that I enjoy making,  is sell-able, and I'm good at.
I've dabbled in everything, from knitting to sewing to paper craft.
In the past 4 months I've easily spent over $2000 on supplies for "brilliant" ideas that either didn't come out like I had envisioned or didn't sell.
I got accepted into school for medical sciences and decided to put things on hold while I'm away studying.
I'm 4 hours away from home with no car and incredibly bored.
Being bored has made my hands itch to create things again.
It started with knitting, my Winter Knitting Project, for myself is finished. I knit a cardigan. Well, it's almost finished, I still have to sew it all together.
I love knitting, but I find it's not something that one can make a lot of profit off of.
My cardigan for example, 6 balls of wool at 10$ a ball. I wouldn't be able to pay myself fully for my time in the price of the sweater. Plus knitting takes so long, I don't think it would be possible to fill an Etsy store completely with knitted products in a timely fashion. It would take me forever to knit enough product to even put in a store!

I've always loved aprons. About 2 years before I even started the textile program I made an apron for myself, bought a book on apron patterns and even designed a few basic ones.
After I graduated I designed a pattern for a two tiered 1950's style apron.
I never did anything with it until the beginning of this month, when I went home to visit on a long weekend.
I finished designing the pattern and bought some fabric to make the apron from.
The picture to the right is my final result.
I know the picture isn't the greatest, but my Judy is at home instead of where I am going to school.

First Things First

I recently graduated from a textile program. Despite learning that the average female artist makes $11 000 a year with a parttime job I have decided to try to give it a go.

I majored in knitting and surface embellishment (quilting, embroidery, fabric manipulation etc).
Now that I've graduated I feel kind of stumped, it's a bit hard trying to come up with things all on my own with no teachers to guide me.
I guess this blog will be where I put my inspirations and projects that I'm working on. Maybe sort out some kinks, I don't know.
I guess I'll see what I'll write about as it happens!

My Dad's friend at work is putting off a fashion show in support of breast and prostate cancer, she messaged me and asked me if I would be interested in submitting some pieces.
Of course I am!
I'm pretty nervous tho, it'll be my first fashion show outside of the graduation show.
I've been trying to come up with some pieces but I'm stumped.

I'll write more once I have some sketches done I suppose!