Here's how to turn your craft hobby into a small business

One person’s crafty interests can run the artistic gamut. Before beginning a small business, creators with multiple hobbies should limit their business project to just a craft or two i.e., knits, oil paintings, woodwork, etc. By restricting formal work to a single sort of craft, an aspiring business owner can hone their skills in that particular art, all the while enjoying the added benefits of keeping other interests strictly fun free-time hobbies. Eventually, these other interests can be incorporated into new products, but better to start small and grow as you go. (iStock.com/joannabrouwers)