The course covered such things as - the date your business technically starts, registration, VAT rules, National Insurance, the importance of record keeping, turnover, accounting period and expenses. If you are thinking of starting your own business, then this free course is very useful and it leads onto other free courses.
Time For Play - On Friday, Mum and I went to the Stitch & Creative Craft show at the Bath & West Show Grounds - it was our time to play and for me to pick the brains of other crafters. Wendy was particularly cheesed off as she had to work and couldn't come with us.
There were loads of paper craft, embroidery and quilting stalls but in between these were a couple of really interesting stalls. One stall sold alpaca wool - Barton Alpaca (www.bartonaplacas.co.uk) the exhibitors spread out whole fleeces across their tables, what a great product. Of course I had to buy some for our felt making efforts, its sooooo soft!
We attended an inspirational workshop on Free Motion Machine Embroidery given by Jan Tillett (www.jantillett.co.uk). This is a fascinating and absorbing textile craft - we machine stitched randomly over scraps of voile and netting sandwiched between two layers of water soluble film until the whole surface was covered in stitching. The next step was to dunk it in a jug of water until the water soluble film had desolved, then spread the resulting lace over a bowl to dry. Once dried it became a beautiful fabric bowl - how simple and effective!
You do need a sewing machine that can do free motion embroidery, some of the older machines can't handle the continuous sewing or have the ability to remove the feeder foot.
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