Working at an established embroidery business is an excellent way to learn enough about the business to consider starting your own embroidery business.
We've all noticed posts like "I just bought an embroidery machine and will be starting a business" - that is great but make sure your work is good enough to sell, before putting a price on it.
All too often, someone new to embroidery will buy a machine and start selling before the stitch quality is good enough. There is much more to embroidery than buying a machine, loading a design and stitching it out. Newcomers have plenty to learn, so take your time, move slow and learn all you can before you try and sell your work. In embroidery, your best advertising will be the quality of your work and unfortunately, word about poor quality travels rather quickly - so you want nothing but high quality stitch outs. Many who jump into the business end of embroidery too soon, quickly become frustrated because they do not have the experience to handle problems [with designs, materials, stabilizers, suppliers, machines, etc.] which will pop up.
Since you will not be digitizing your own designs, I assume that means that you will be purchasing designs, downloading free designs off the internet or using the services of a digitizer [hopefully a good one]. Not all designs [free or purchased] are good quality, so it will be important for you to recognize the difference between good and bad designs. Not all designs will be suitable for stitching on t-shirts unless they are specifically digitized as such or at least edited for t-shirts. In most cases, a design which will be stitched on a t-shirt and fleece and caps and towels and leather will be edited or digitized for each material separately.
Using the services of a GOOD digitizer will go a long way to providing you with assistance in creating designs and quality stitch outs. They will know what will and will not be suitable for your clothing.
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