Suzanne Booth Craft Business Strategist

Suzanne Booth Craft Business Strategist Craft Business Strategist, multidisciplinary maker, creative facilitator & former teacher. No hustle culture. No scary sales tactics.

I help craft businesses owners make money beyond making & selling products and run Creative Wilding™️ workshops, helping adults reconnect & nurture creativity. ✨ About Suzanne Booth ✨
Mentor for Creative Women Ready to Turn Their Craft Into Calm, Joyful Income

I’m Suzanne—textile designer, yarn lover, and your calm-in-the-chaos business mentor. If you’re a creative woman who adores crafting (espe

cially with yarn, fibre, and textiles) and you dream of turning that passion into a life-friendly side hustle—without tech headaches, burnout, or overwhelm—you’re in the right place. I help time-poor, idea-rich women build soulful, sustainable side businesses from their craft through gentle guidance, inspiring resources, and relatable mentorship. Just honest support, slow growth, and strategies designed for real life. With a background in design and handmade business, I know how powerful your creativity is—and I’m here to show you how to grow something beautiful, purposeful, and profitable from it. Let’s make magic—your way.
💖 Calm, confident creativity.
💖 Practical steps with heart.
💖 A business that fits your life—not the other way around.

20/06/2026

💡You’ve had the idea - more than once!

Maybe it was a workshop and teaching what you know. Maybe it was something else entirely.🤔

But every time it came up, you found a reason it wasn’t for you, or that nobody would want it anyway. 

🧶So you went back to making the thing and selling the thing -because that’s the model you’re comfortable with, well, it’s the one we were all handed, right?!

Here’s what to think about for a sec… it was never your making that was the problem, because that’s the bit you’re blooming good at. The bit that’s keeping you stuck is the loop that runs every time you get close to trying something different, the one that talks you out of it before you’ve even worked out if it could work.

That loop isn’t a sign the idea was bad; it’s those fear gremlins getting the better of you, that are always going to hold you back unless you decide to stop listening to them. 🧌

If you’re ready to explore what other ways your skills and your craft could make money for you,
👉👉👉👉then follow along for more ideas on building a profitable handmade business beyond selling products.

18/06/2026

👩🏻‍🎨If you're a maker trying to earn more, stop making more.

Not because your products aren’t good enough or because you shouldn’t keep creating- because that’s what you live right?! 💕

But because there comes a point where making more stock isn't the answer.

When your income slows, the instinct is always the same: to make more products, or to book more craft fairs, or to do more hours- inevitably you are going to hit a ceiling, because there are only so many hours in a day.

The makers who build sustainable businesses, realise they have more to sell than finished products.

They have;
⭐️skills
⭐️knowledge
⭐️experience, as well as a unique ⭐️creative process or
⭐️eye for design.

Those things can easily become:
- workshops
- patterns
- digital products
- memberships
- courses
- licencing opportunities
- and so much more

The goal here isn't to stop making, but it is to stop relying on making as your only source of income.

If you've ever felt like you've hit the limit of what you can physically make and don't know where to go next or how you could go about earning more money for your craft business, follow along to explore more ways to grow your craft business, beyond products with me!

18/06/2026

One of the biggest myths in the handmade business world is that the only way to earn more is to make more and do more craft fairs, make more Etsy listing.

But eventually every maker and handmade business owner reaches the same challenge: there are only so many hours in the day and only so many products you can physically make.

That’s why the most sustainable craft businesses often have more than one income stream.

Alongside selling handmade products, they might offer craft workshops, digital products, patterns, memberships, online courses, licensing opportunities, or other ways of sharing their skills and expertise.

I want you to remember that  what you’re selling isn’t just the finished product.

It’s your knowledge, creative process, your experience, even your eye for design.

And that gives you an incredible ability to help someone else create something themselves.

This is definitely not about stopping making - the goal is to build a handmade business that isn’t dependent on making more stock every time you want to earn more money.

If you’ve ever thought, “I’d love to grow my craft business, but I can’t physically make any more products,” you’re exactly who I create content for. 🥰

👉👉Follow for more ideas on building a profitable handmade business beyond selling products.

Three reasons first workshops don’t fill …and notice that not one of them is about talent.If you’ve ever run a workshop ...
17/06/2026

Three reasons first workshops don’t fill …and notice that not one of them is about talent.

If you’ve ever run a workshop that didn’t fill, or talked yourself out of running one at all, I’d put money on it being one of these three:

🤔a fuzzy outcome,
🤔a price that undersold you,
🤔or no real plan to get people in the room.

None of them is about whether you’re good enough- you are. 🥰

They’re about the plan around the thing, which is learnable and which most makers were just never shown.

SAVE this for when you’re ready to plan yours.

And if “ready” is now - ⭐️Workshop Ready ⭐️ is still available to joins! BUT …doors close TONIGHT! We’d 17th June.

Details in bio. 💛

17/06/2026

A little bit of a spontaneous post this morning, but I wanted to tell a little bit about why I created Workshop Ready.

Yes, it is about you learning everything you need to know to be able to plan, price, and fill a workshop, and in our live sessions together I share my experience and knowledge with you to make them as successful as they can be.

But i wanted to talk a little bit about why, why workshop ready is a part of me helping you with building an amazing creative business.

I’d love you to join me in workshop ready starting next week. So comment READY and I’ll ping you a message.

16/06/2026

You're busy, working hard at every craft fair, but your income doesn't match. If you're stuck in a cycle of making and selling, a workshop can break the pattern. Teach what you know, earn more in less time, and finally grow your business. Workshop Ready helps you build and launch it .

16/06/2026

The thing that scares most makers about running a craft workshop isn’t actually the teaching! 

Whenever I talk to handmade business owners about teaching workshops, It’s not often they’re worried about standing up and sharing their craft skills.Because deep down, they know they can do that.

The real fear is what happens after they create the workshop.
😔What if nobody books?
😔What if you spend hours planning your craft workshop and only sell a handful of places?
😔What if the workshop doesn’t make enough money to justify the time and effort?

Those are the questions that stop so many talented makers from ever launching a workshop in the first place. And don’t get me wrong, I totally get it because I’ve had those fears too. 

⭐️And that’s also why I’ve created  Workshop Ready- which isn’t just about planning your workshop. We spend dedicated time looking at how to price your workshop, market your workshop, attract bookings and fill your workshop with paying customers.⭐️

Because a beautiful craft workshop that nobody books isn’t a the point! 

👩🏻‍🎨If you’ve been thinking about adding workshops to your handmade business but the fear of filling places is holding you back, Workshop Ready was built for exactly that.

‼️Doors close tomorrow - Wednesday 17th June at Midnight! 

🗣️Comment READY or check the link in my bio for all the details.

15/06/2026

Feeling stuck in the cycle of making more products just to make more money in your handmade business?
If your craft business relies entirely on selling what you make, it’s easy to end up busy all the time without feeling like you’re seeing the income you want.
That’s why I talk about running craft workshops and still do them myself too. Teaching uses skills you already have and is a great additional income stream, as well as helps you reach new customers, and gives you a way to earn that isn’t tied to making more stock.
The problem isn’t usually whether you’re capable of teaching a workshop—it’s knowing where to start and having the confidence to make it happen.
That’s exactly what Workshop Ready is designed to help with. Over five live sessions, we’ll build your craft workshop together, from planning and pricing to filling the places.
Doors close THIS Wednesday - 17th June
Comment READY or check the link in my bio for details.

15/06/2026

You’re constantly busy, constantly making, constantly showing up and your income doesn’t ever feel it reflects how hard you’re working - so when someone like me says “add a workshop to your business,” the first thought is: with what time? 
Because you’re thinking, it’s not that easy, I don’t know what else I’d do, and you’re secretly hoping that tomorrow it’s all going to ‘take off’ and your orders are going to go wild. 

But there’s the problem-  That cycle you’re stuck in IS the time problem. Making more, selling more, packing the car for another fair,  that’s what’s eating your time.

A workshop is one of the few things that breaks the pattern instead of feeding it. 

One evening or afternoon, teaching something you already know by heart, earning you far more than the same time spent standing at a craft fair. 

And just when you might be convince to gie it a go, you get stuck going all through the things you’re worried about or don’t know how to do and boom- you’re back in the cycle again. 

In Workshop Ready, I help you actually take that leap from thinking about it to getting it completely ready, so your actual workshop is built and ready to go.

Over five online sessions with me we make decisions, make the plan, price it and work out how to fill it. 
Doors close Wednesday. 

Comment READY or the isin my Link in bio if you want the details. 💛

13/06/2026

Do not listen to them - I’m a qualified teacher, and even I wouldn’t say this to you. 

You need to be one step ahead of the person in front of you and be willing to show them how you got there.

Being good at your craft gives you passion and  means that you understand  the shortcuts and the mistakes to avoid.

That’s exactly what people are paying to learn. They don’t want a lecture-type lesson. They want to spend a few hours being guided by someone who actually does this, who they already admire, who makes them feel capable.

Good teaching is a skill, yes, but one that, with good planning and structure, you can get more confident in. 

That feeling of “I’m not sure I’d be any good at teaching” is a common fear; I want to help to shift that objection. 

It’s one of the reasons I built Workshop Ready: my live bootcamp where I personally help you plan, price and fill your workshop across 5 live online sessions, and get you genuinely confident standing at the front of the room. 

🗣️Comment READY, and I’ll send you the details

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