Q&A What is you favorite part about your business?

Hello everyone and welcome welcome. 

Today is another fun question for me and I'm eager to hear about your favorite parts about your own businesses. Its unique to everyone. 

For me my favorite part of SewnbySabrina is that I get to do what I love and share it with others, but I think that goes for all small business owners, we love what we do; that's the reason why we started doing it. 

If I had to pick a favorite part it would have to be my sewing machines. For those who aren't aware or whose first time reading my blog. I sew everything in shop using one of two antique Singer sewing machines. A hand crank circa 1913 or a electric knee peddle machine circa 1934. Those are the jewels of my workshop. 

Without those machines my business wouldn't be here today. 
However they are my favorites not just because they are the tools I use ever day, they are a unique and quirky thing that makes my business different. 
Most people when they start a small business on the basis of sewing, they want a fancy machine with a super high stitch per minute count, to be able to have multiple different kind of stitches, ziz-zag, back-stitch etc... 
My machines do one kind of stitch, and only go forwards, there is no backwards setting. I can adjust the length of my stitches but I rarely due since my machines are a little picky, and so am I. I've grown accustomed to the small stitch length of my 1913 and how tight and pretty they look. My 1934, because its faster than the other tends to have a messier stitch.

You might think of that comment and think its due to a tension issue, but its not. I've come to notice that the faster a machine goes sometimes the stitches don't always look their best, sometimes for the cleanest and best looking stitches its better to take some time ad go slower. 
I also really like the simplicity of the machines in general. It goes in one direction, I don't have the change the settings. All I really have to worry about is when I run out of my bobbin thread and making sure its clean and well oiled due to the cast iron body. Parts hidden inside are impossible to reach if something goes wrong and I want my machines to be something I have for a very long time. 

If I grow my business even more, its something I want to keep as a pillar, that my company uses antique sewing machines and takes good care of them and preserves them by using them. 
Antique sewing machines hold a specials place in my heart, I've brought my own to markets and it was something that brought people to my tables because it was something they didn't see everyday. It started conversations about grand-parents and great-grand-parents, it was something that built connections with people. 

They're also incredibly beautiful pieces of art, which often makes me sad when I come across one in a antique shop and find that its rusted solid, its seized and no longer has a future where someone might sew with it. Its now either headed for the scrap yard or to have its history and original beauty painted over with some thick turquoise or white paint... I use and take care of my machines with the hope that they'll never end up like that, as relics forgotten and unloved. 

I might not have the stories of the people who used the machines that I own now, but when the day comes that my machines get passed along to another I want them to have at least this part of their history. If I acquire more of them for business I want to do the same. Because they last forever if they're taken care of, and that's important to me, I want my tools to last multiple lifetimes. 

Now that you know what my favorite part of SewnbySabrina is, tell me about what your favorite part about your business is. I can't wait to hear what it is. 
Until next time, 
Sabrina

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