Clothing alterations gives income even working from home.  Sewing for a living should be considered a noble career.  I was talking to a lady once about sewing and she told me how her mum did sewing at home to provide a home and food for her children in the Great Depression.  Sewing for a living can be tough if you work in a factory environment.  These days you don’t have to go to those lengths.  Starting up a small clothing alteration shop can be very rewarding, or doing some extra sewing at home for people can help give you a little extra income into the household budget.

It’s honest work, and can be very rewarding if you are a professional and provide quality workmanship.

The beauty about doing clothing alterations for a living is that it is in demand whether there are good times or bad.  It does not matter whether we are in a recession, depression or boom times, people need to buy clothes, and they need to have them shortened, taken in, let out and/or any other number of things.  Also a lot of people will hold on to their clothes and if they need repairing they will take them to someone who does clothing alterations.

I charge AUD$15 for a hem on trousers or jeans.  More for dresses.  But consider if you can alter 4 jeans/trousers a day.  That is $60 per day x 5 days a week = $300 per week for 4 hems a day!!!  If you are interested and do not know where to begin have a look at my Clothing Alteration Business Package.

Happy altering
Judith aka genie