Quilted accessories include a wide range of products: home d?r, clothing, pet accessories... and more!
In the home d?r category, your business could make and sell quilted potholders and matching aprons with pockets that coordinate with the potholder pattern. You could make and sell quilted oven mitts.
Table runners and mantel drapes are also popular quilted items for the home. Quilted placemats and coasters are also ideas.
For a living room, den, bedroom, dining room or kitchen quilted wall hangings are popular. These can be custom made to coordinate with your client's own interior colors and style.
For a guest room or bathroom, why not quilt covers for a tissue box or photo or mirror frame? Quilted pillowcases are also good sellers.
Take the idea of home d?r to a smaller scale and perhaps your quilting business could be making quilted items for doll houses. Many collectors will pay top dollar to have their dollhouse beds accented with tiny little quilts. Such quilts would also be a niche business for baby dolls. Little girls love their dolls and many parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles would pay good money to have a special quilt made for a special doll!
Holidays open up a wide range of options for home d?r as well. Keep that in mind if your quilting business will focus on home d?r. Your quilting business could actually focus on holiday items.
Christmas ornaments, stockings, wall hangings, table decorations...the possibilities for that one holiday alone are endless! Imagine if your quilting business focused on all holidays.
For January, quilted d?r featuring snowmen and snowflakes would be popular for the winter theme. February is Valentine's Day. Focus for that holiday would be on quilted items with hearts, cupids, etc. March brings St. Patricks' Day and Spring.
April is Easter, and brings another slew of quilted holiday items to mind. Baskets made from quilted strips of fabric would be gorgeous. Patchwork eggs stuffed to perfection would also be fun items.
May and June bring graduations along with Mother's and Father's days. These months are great for quilted photo frames or scrapbooks with a quilted cover.
July's patriotic theme would be great inspiration for quilted home de'cor as well. August and September sends children (and teachers) back to school. Quilted notebooks, tote bags, pencil cases would be great accessories for those months. Halloween and Thanksgiving also offer endless possibilities for home décor, too. Use your imagination!
Quilted apparel could include a number of items as well. Belts and headbands are popular accessories. Quilted jackets are a higher ticket item you could make and sell. You could add small quilt blocks to simple cardigans as pockets. Combine your jackets with a matching quilted cap or tote bag and increase your price accordingly!
Other quilted accessories you could make include cell phone holders, lip gloss pouches, and eye glass cases. Coin purses and wallets are other ideas for quilted accessories. Purses and tote bags are also very popular items that translate nicely into quilted products.
The pet niche can be so much fun. People of all ages love to buy things for their pets. For cats and dogs, quilted carrying cases are good sellers. Pet beds are another top item.
Pet clothing is also very popular. Small dogs generally need the added warmth of a coat in the winter. Quilted coats, jackets and shawls are good sellers for pet clothing. Create a package by including the quilted coat or jacket along with a matching quilted hat.
No matter which niche you choose, any of these areas would offer great sales opportunities for your own quilting business.
By: Penny Halgren
About the Author:
Penny Halgren
http://www.TheQuiltingCoach.com
Penny has been a quilter for more than 27 years. She enjoys exploring all aspects of quilting and sharing her knowledge with all quilters. If you are looking for an Internet quilting club with a wide variety of resources for all level quilters, check out http://www.TheQuiltingCoach.com .
Tags: Niche Business, Quilted Placemats, Quilted Wall Hangings
Duvets reduce the complexity of making a bed, as it is a single covering instead of the mixture of sheets, blankets, and quilts or other bed covers, which is traditional in many parts of the world. The cover is called a duvet cover or a "quilt cover".
In Australia a duvet is called a "Doona", from a trademarked brand name derived from the Old Norse "dunn" meaning "down feathers". Though still registered to the Tontine Company, the name "Doona" has become a general term for a duvet or down quilt. A duvet is sometimes confused with a comforter, although comforters go on top of the traditional sheets and blankets and are primarily decorative while duvets are used alone.
Originally the term "continental quilt" was the standard name used across Australia, some regions of Australia still use this term today.
A duvet is also called a quilt, following British tradition.
Duvets are still commonly used in Europe (especially in northern Europe and Scandinavia where it is the most common form of bed covering), and have become popular throughout the world in the late twentieth century.
In Danish and Norwegian a duvet is called a dyne, which is pronounced similarly to the Australian name "doona".
In the US, confusion often occurs as the word "duvet" may refer to a comforter cover rather than the down blanket itself.
In Spain and Latin America a duvet is known as edredon.
In Russia a duvet is called a "cotton blanket". It is the most general form of bed covering in Russia and a bright coloured atlas is often used for top and bottom cloth.
By: just bedding
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The world's first stop for all it's exquisite duvet covers, bed linens and Manchester products. We pride ourselves on having the very best in quality and design, a strong customer focus and exceptional value for money.
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Tags: Continental Quilt, Late Twentieth Century, Trademarked Brand
The Ideal Sports Quilt Bedding For Boys
By Zafer Aktas
It does not matter what sports your children admire like basketball, soccer, football or baseball, because quilted sports bedding completes and enhances most bedroom decoration. All the sports which little your athletes loves can play right into his own bedroom. Some of main features and the desired characteristics of quilts include the following.
Primarily, pre - washed quilts make sure that you get that soft comfortable feeling immediately out of the bag. It also provides the desired worn look which boys desire. Furthermore, the quilts should be made of 100 percent cotton face cloth with 100 per cent cotton fiber fill for durability and heirloom quality. So all quality quilts should feature cotton patchwork face cloths with 100% hypoallergenic fiber fill. The cotton material allows the bedding to be machine washable for repeated use.
All Sports bed quilts should come with a mini set configuration where each quilt set includes a quilt cover and matching pillow shams. The quilt covers are in either full / queen sizes or twin sizes. Full / queen sizes include two standard size pillow shams and twin quilts include only one standard size pillow shams. Some of the optional accessories available with quilts sets include window valances, sheet sets, dust ruffles (bed skirts) and drapes which match and coordinate with the quilt to complete the bedroom layout.
Quilts are also a great bedroom coordinate because they can go with so many sports themes, patterns and color combinations. Color combinations like deep navy blue, burgundy or beige colors and an accent plaid make quilt bedding an easy match for any pallet.
Zafer Aktas retailer and writer of Luxury Bed in a Bag, boys sports bedding and sports bedding for kids.
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I am looking at IKEA.com and I cannot find a duvet cover. Instead, the directed me to a bunch of "quilt covers." What is a quilt cover? And can I use it for my down comforter?
Tags: Down Comforter, Duvet Cover, Quilt Cover
I recently purchased a quilt, and I'm unsure about whether to get a cotton or satin quilt cover. I want something comfortable and smooth, that hopefully doesn't get too hot during summer.
Any suggestions?
Tags: Quilt Cover, Quilt Covers, Satin