I went with enchanting for style and I don't like grinding for items so I figured making my own would be simpler. Tailoring is supposed to be a skill that nicely sidelines with enchanting.
Yes, the two go very well together. Enchanting is best leveled by making cloth items to disenchant. In turn, high level tailoring requires large amounts of enchanting materials.
However! Having a gathering profession will make you boatloads of money, especially as you level: level 80s farm gold to buy low level mats.

To address making your own gear, sure, it helps... but leveling gear is very quickly replaced, especially by quest rewards and instance drops. To make anything "above average" as a tailor, you have to farm other kinds of mats (spider silk, elemental essences type things, etc). In short, it's nice but not necessary or even particularly worthwhile in the long run.
My recommendation would be to drop enchanting and go mining. Keep leveling up your tailoring, and put any green items you find or make in the bank (or sell on the auction hall if the stats are desirable - "eagle" gear for casters, etc). Once you get a couple hundred gold from mining in your mid-40s, you can drop it to pick up enchanting again. Even disenchanting will get you up to 50 skill or so, and the tailor items you disenchant (silk headbands in particular) will give you lots of mats to keep the process going.
The reason I recommend you keep tailoring is simple: bags.

So I finally gave in and started playing WoW, any advice?
15/07/2010 02:04:34 AM
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Add-Ons are actually common and not a bannable offense (depending on their nature).
15/07/2010 02:11:03 AM
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Re: So I finally gave in and started playing WoW, any advice?
15/07/2010 02:31:00 PM
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Others have given good advice. also:
15/07/2010 07:18:18 PM
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Currently level 20 mage, just bought all the spells now I am poor
18/07/2010 03:25:57 PM
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Mining is a good Profession to pick up to make money on the side.
18/07/2010 06:25:35 PM
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Currently my professions are tailoring and enchanting
19/07/2010 12:25:28 AM
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The problem with leveling enchanting is that its a money sink, so you'll be poor a lot.
19/07/2010 12:55:49 AM
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As a tailor / enchanter...
19/07/2010 04:18:36 PM
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You're worrying too much, and min-maxing too much. And a lot of this advice is very, very bad.
18/07/2010 07:03:43 PM
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To min max is my nature
19/07/2010 12:33:00 AM
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Of course. I don't mean to imply that min-maxing it inherently bad or not fun.
19/07/2010 04:31:18 PM
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