What's up everybody. Me and my wife are thinking of opening a home-based business and are just looking for input. My wife's friend's sister in-law (5 hours away by car) has an embroidery machine in her house which she uses for business. According to my wife's friend the embroidery business is doing pretty good.

We're just looking for extra income, not seeking to be rich from working at home. We already have lots of space in the house especially now that all the kids are grown up and gone. We're not serious about it yet, we're just asking around at this point. Is it really possible to generate extra income doing embroidery from home? Thank you.

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In short, yes, absolutely. You may be happy to know that many commercial embroiderers run their business from home. You have to understand, however, that it's no so cut and dry. It would be easier if either you or your wife does embroidery as a hobby before starting an embroidery business.

Before even thinking of buying an expensive home/commercial embroidery machine, have you given thought of who your target customers are? do you have a niche in mind? what about competition in your area?

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