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From hobby to business

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From hobby to business

Some people become so skilled in their chosen hobby that they turn it into a business. Dunedinite Anne Lewis learned to sew as a young girl and later made clothes for her own children. She continued to sew for pleasure at home after store-bought clothes became cheaper than home-made, and she opened a sewing shop in 1996. 

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 23 May 2012, p. 17

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Kerryn Pollock, Domestic recreation and hobbies – Gardening and making things, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/41112/from-hobby-to-business (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 14 March 2013.