Originally Posted by QKO

If you're buying pre-cuts, you're paying for several things in addition to just the fabric.

If you want to make layer cakes or charm packs or strip bundles and sell them:

1. Go out and purchase at least one bolt of each of the 40 or so fabrics contained in the package. While you're at it, spend thousands of dollars on precision cutting equipment and supplies as well as packaging equipment and extras, like ribbon, etc. Make sure you also budget for expendables on your equipment.

2. Now that you've made that investment, hire someone to do the cutting and packaging, or do it yourself, taking time away from more profitable activities. Make sure you also take the time to make sure the person you hired is doing it correctly.

3. Now you're ready to start cutting. Since you can't cut just one of the above-mentioned items, cut at least two sets and usually a lot more. Toss out a lot of fabric that is wasted during the cutting process. Pitch out all the fabric wasted on cutting errors.

4. Sell a few at full price, then watch the others sit on your shelves until you need to discount them down to loss prices to move them.



BTW, unless you're hand-cutting or have really large industrial die-cutting equipment, you can't get 10 inch squares out of 10" strips. You need at least a half-inch overlap around the squares if you're die-cutting, so that means a minimum of an 11 inch strip to make 10 inch squares.