SouthStar Supply Co.

05/24/2018

Ha ha – made you look! Whether you hate him or love him, he does get your attention, doesn’t he? He sure got my attention when he lambasted Amazon recently for ripping off the post office. He did get that right – except I don’t blame Amazon; it’s the post office that gave away the …

05/15/2018

A FEW POINTERS (HA HA – SAME JOKE AGAIN) TO TAKE SOME OF THE MYSTERY OUT OF ORDERING SCISSORS Scissors have been around since before the Roman Empire, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing new about them, nor that it’s always an easy purchase. I figure we’ve sold about ten million in our t...

05/01/2018

A FEW POINTERS (HA HA) TO TAKE SOME OF THE MYSTERY OUT OF ORDERING SEWING MACHINE NEEDLES Many customers ordering more needles for their sewing machines, look at a needle sleeve such as the one above and say to us, “Which numbers do you want me to read?” Uh, all of them. Though the fact …

02/08/2018

http://southstarsupply.com/2018/02/grist-columnist-taking/

I often grouse around the office that technology is not making life easier at all, but in fact is making it harder. True, when I think back on starting when faxes were the newest thing, I know computers and the web have made our work much more efficient. Customers can come to us from anywhere …

01/24/2018

http://southstarsupply.com/2018/01/online-sewing-factory-auction/

Mill Direct, Inc. 2110 Highway 12, Benson, MN, 55305 Online Bidding Ends: Wednesday, January 31st, 2018 at 2:00 P.M. EST Inspection: Tuesday, January 30th from 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. Featuring: Fabric Cutters: (11) Gerbercutter, Maimin, Wolf Blazer, Wolf Pacer, Eastman, USM, Etc. · Embroidery Machi...

10/03/2017

Some years ago Jerry Lee Lewis had an uncharacteristically mellow song that described a fellow who was “39 and holding – holding everything he can.” Well, that’s a melancholy 39, and frankly that looks quite young from my 59 years. So when SouthStar hits year 29 next January 1, why, we’re still youn...

08/23/2017

http://southstarsupply.com/2017/07/grist-columnist-larnt-along-way/

10/14/2016

http://southstarsupply.com/2016/10/grist-columnist-wantedreward-sewbiz-essay/

If you’ve been in the business of sewing a while, no doubt you’ve got a good story to tell. If so, we want it! We’re working on a new project here. It’s not quite a catalog and not quite a textbook, but both together and then some. Called “The SewBiz Owner’s Manual™,” we plan to …

07/14/2015

SouthStar's Summer 2015 Product Bulletin #246 is now in the snail mail, but if you need it sooner, just go to our home page for a PDF copy. And read our Grist Columnist feature for some SouthStar celebrity news...
http://southstarsupply.com/2015/07/grist-columnist-watchoo-doin-here/

04/07/2015

SouthStar's Product Bulletin #245 is now in the snail mail, but if you need it sooner, just go to our home page for a PDF copy.
http://southstarsupply.com/2015/04/grist-columnist-boom-times/

April fool! I sort of remember boom times, but it’s been a good long while. If you’re under age 35 or 40 or you’ve been in business for just the last couple of decades, you really don’t know what boom times are. Maybe that’s not such a bad thing—what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. …

02/03/2015

http://southstarsupply.com/2015/02/southstar-supply-featured-shop-talk-magazine/

We’ve been friends with the folks at “Shop Talk!” magazine for years and years – in fact, publisher Dan Preston attended the one and only Sewing Business Seminar we organized here in Nashville way back in the ’90s. So it is quite a treat and a closing of the circle to be featured in this month’s “Sh…