Welcome to YT.
I'm so jealous of your talents. I wish I could make make furbaby clothes!!
Good luck - there are are so many different ideas here for everything-Yorkie. That's what I love about it. No one does anything the same, so you will be sure to find one idea or solution that works for your style!
As for your potty-training, I attribute my "success" (LOL - wait - let me stop rolling on the floor laughing at that first) to just being extra diligent for a few months. For most yorkies, if you really put the work into it for a few months, you'll have a lot of stress-free
years. For all of mine, I've crate trained and kept them confined to one (non-carpeted) room in the beginning. Then as we get better, we add a room of freedom. Right now, Coby is going on 10 months old, and we've still only worked up to two rooms of free unsupervised freedom (one floor, one carpet) plus our bed at night. But those places are 99.9% accident-free. We are still adding rooms of supervision. My other dogs did not have full run of the house for over a year. It might seem really strict, but there's no yelling about accidents, no stress of cleaning them up this way, and only successful confident dogs! We use puppy pads and outside for pottying. Both dogs will either ask to go outside or go on the pad and come tell me that they did (they are WELL trained for treats!!
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Can't wait to hear more of your stories too!