The story of Minnie’s Homemade Crafts!
Hi, my name is Minnie and welcome to Minnie’s Homemade Crafts!
I mainly make baby and children clothes because I’ve always wanted to have my own boutique ever since I was really young. I started designing all these big fancy dresses with my friends in primary school and I’ve always been creative and inspired to make something. I loved going to the big craft shop with my mum and I get my creativity from her because she is very talented when it comes to decorating cakes. They are delicious too! She also hand stitched me pretty bunting with my name on it. I still have it now hung up.
When I started secondary school my favourite subjects were textiles and P.E, as I am also a very active person. This was the first time I had ever used a sewing machine (11 years old). The first thing I ever made was a cushion cover and let’s just say it wasn’t very pretty. I remember I wasn’t very good at hand stitching and when my teacher saw it she said “I hope you don’t take textiles for GCSEs!”. The next year I chose textiles for one of my GCSEs........
Every year the school did a fashion show for the GCSE students and one year I made a 2 year old boys romper for my sisters friends son. I finished the romper and was so proud of it. It was blue gingham with fleece clouds and a pocket in the middle with a sunshine on it. Then the boy I made it for backed out of the fashion show and I was panicking because I didn’t know any other little people. In the end my teachers daughter had to wear it. As we still had a couple weeks left until the fashion show I thought I would make something else. I found a tutorial on YouTube on how to make a blanket and I found some really nice fabric in the textiles cupboard with Scottie dogs on it. This was the first ever thing I made without any help and I was so proud of it. My mum loved it and we gave it to my grandma as a gift.
My mum noticed that I loved sewing and she bought me a second hand sewing machine from eBay. Me, mum and my dad went on a 1 hour drive to collect the sewing machine and I was so excited. And that’s how I got my first singer. I still use it now along with a singer overlocker.
I had to leave my secondary only months before the GCSE exams due to being bullied. It was too late to join another school so I was homeschooled and couldn’t take my GCSEs. But that didn’t stop me from pursuing my dream of being an entrepreneur of my own sewing clothing business. I self taught myself more and more techniques of sewing and learnt so much from the web. I’m still learning lots of new things today.
I want Minnie’s Homemade Crafts to be special to people. Products that you can’t find anywhere else. Funky, unique, pretty, cute, handsome. I hope you like my creations and consider purchasing.
Enjoy shopping! x