red rocketeer

Gross.

Here’s my sign.

Cupboard clean out day?

Ya, patterns suck. Unfortunately, a great way of learning the trade can be eating some assholes shit for a while. If you can find a shop you can suffer with, it will get your face out there. People will quickly seek you out if you’re talented.

It doesn’t sound like you’re able to start a business, but you will be able to build one. I say, I’m not building boat tops, I’m building relationships lol. It’s a piece of cloth, they’re going to be back for repairs. Sometimes you eat the bear, but this time the bear ate you. Remember this one and carry on with the next one. It takes a stiff spine to slut yourself as a custom shop. I call myself an upholstitute or an upholstwhore.

I bill time and materials. My hourly rate should cover all my overhead, taxes and my wage. I mark up my materials 100%. Some people will pay me for work as I complete it, but the vast majority want a quote. I have to guess how much material it costs and how long it will take me to complete. This is quite hard sometimes as weird shapes and matching patterns might cause a significant increase in yardage and time. Experience leads to accurate estimates of materials and labour. Newbies might order too little and need to order more for a long cut, or cut improperly and need more. All that wastes time and drops your billable hours. I’d say I’m pretty good at my job and that leads me to command a higher shop rate than others might.

They hadn’t invented shade yet.

I feel you. But being on your own is where income gets generated. It’s also a pain in the ass.

Very good ideas but you’ve just described, like, 4 trades lol. Sewing Machine Operator is a very broad term for many specialized trades. It’s rare to find a quilter who’s also an industrial tarp fabricator.

I agree with you on some of that, but if the guy is contracting out individual jobs to sewers and they use their own equipment and set their own hours they are sole proprietors and not his employees. This guy seems to be trying to have it both ways though and is just working to drive down the cost of labour.

Very hard to answer. If it’s a rectangle stapled onto a board: strip/cut+sew/upholster, about an hour? My shop rate is $100/hour. It can easily take longer with weird shapes, many seams, new foam ect…

If it takes 20 minutes to sew that’s a fair price.

I run a cut/sew shop specializing in marine canvas. I’m a one man shop but have worked for tyrants in the industry. Sounds like this guy is another dictator of his empire of dirt. Buy yourself a good walking foot machine and seize the means of production.

In all honesty, a simple box cushion should take about an hour and a half. I charge $100/hour. If I was to sub it out I have a sewer who would do it for $40/hour. I hate cushions with a passion and would tell the customer I was subbing it out but would still charge them $60/hour at least. Experience equals speed equals profit, and education is expensive. I’m sure you’ll sew the next ones faster, but that doesn’t mean you’ll get paid extra to learn.

But fuck that guy. He will always pay the smallest amount possible and look for ways to keep his foot on your neck as you improve. Marine canvas isn’t a simple trade to start in, but can be quite profitable if you don’t fuck up. I encourage you to keep at it, but don’t count on some asshole to help you.

The main character always survives.

As a sewing machine operator I was very confused!

The part about wrapping around the treads between the button and shirt is to give space for the button hole side and to protect the threads from wearing against the button hole and provide longevity to the repair.

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Missed a bit

“.25kg > .5kg”

Which one of those is a third?

Can’t say. I was pretty drunk. Made sense at the time I guess.

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