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Please find some links and notes from the 2 Regular Guys Podcast. Here is a question our teams hears often; “How do I transition from embroidering for fun to embroidery for profit? We welcome into the show REGGIE Nominee Lisa Shaw of Sew-Bubbles.com to answer that very question. She will share with us what resources, steps, and software are needed to make that transition. She also helps us decide what to keep in-house and what to outsource. Tune in for some great information from Lisa as well as our show producer Erich Campbell carrying this show as our resident embroidery expert.

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Going from Hobby to Profit as an Embroider Erich: Today we’re happy to bring on Lisa Shaw who’s been an educator in the home machine embroidery industry since the 90s as the owner of Bubbles’ Menagerie, focusing on the software side of machine embroidery. From 15 years as the tech support manager for Buzz Tools, to her work representing Embrilliance in social media and at trade shows, she has been supporting customers, creating online education, and teaching around the world. She’s appeared on It’s Sew Easy for PBS, written articles for Creative Machine Embroidery, and Designs in Machine Embroidery magazine and can be found teaching her own hands on 3-day events and at classes around the country. Lisa, welcome to the show! Q1: We’ve recently talked a great deal about small shops, and the rise of the ‘cottage industry’ in your teaching, do you see a lot of home embroiders moving into selling their work? How do you find they usually get started doing hired work? Q2. A great deal of the embroiderers you teach are really looking at this as a hobby or an artform; what do you see as the biggest hurdles they face in...