I’m doing what I guess could be called market research. I need help decided what if anything I should start making to add to my etsy shop.

I’m closing the brick & mortar store in April and moving everything online. I’m in the process of uploading everything to a stand alone store that will be linked to this blog and this domain name. I’ve been pretty successful on etsy this past six months as a supply seller so I will probably keep that going for the time being.

I also have a second etsy shop where I used to try to sell my photography. But that never took off and it was too time consuming to promote and keep up to date for very little pay off. I am thinking of turning that shop into a shop for my handmade items. I’ve tried in the past to sell my handbags and a few other things at etsy and had moderate success.

I have a lot of fabric that isn’t really popular and needs to move one way or the other and I was thinking of using it to make stuff to sell. I thought if I focused on one or two things I could streamline production and promote easier. I just need to decide what those things will be. I’ve found that the etsy handbag market is really saturated and competitive so I think I’m not going to go back into that arena again.

I am debating between: aprons, pajama/lounge pants and skirts. What do you all think? The other possibility would be to market to knitters and make sock bags, accessory zip bags, and larger totes.

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