Category: craft fairs
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Going, Going…..
…and soon to be gone – hopefully! Over the past few weeks I’ve been worrying away at the piles (mountains!) of finishing that need to be done. There is now one huge (or two smaller) stacks of shawls and scarves that are done to the point of needing their hang/care tags and prices. I also…
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More Endings
2nd last painted warp beamed ready to thread…. One of the most dangerous things a craftsperson who relies on the sales of their product for income can do is to keep making the same thing over and over again just because it’s been selling well. Markets get saturated, fashions change – and there are always…
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Post Show Slump
Like a re-chargable battery it seems like the older I get the longer it takes me to re-charge after a big expenditure of energy. :} And it seems like I’ve been running pretty much full tilt since September. So since getting home Monday night I’ve done very little other than read (one book was overdue…
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Work in Progress
Let me begin by explaining that these pictures are not great – I just took quick snaps when I had a second during set up…. So many people don’t understand what goes into setting up a booth at a high(er) end craft fair that I thought I would talk a little bit about what goes…
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Older and…..Wiser?
Doug stayed up til midnight last night packing product. He’s…um…a perfectionist? So he’s very careful about packing everything well so that it arrives in a state to be displayed. Much more careful than I am. :} While he did that I did my best to tackle the mess in the kitchen. In a few minutes…
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Shawls
All of the above shawls were woven on the same warp…. The above photo isn’t great – took it with my Blackberry and the focus is ‘off’, but it shows the drape and the slight irridescence of the fabric quite nicely. The shawls in the above photos were woven quite a long time ago. It…
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Shawls
All of the above shawls were woven on the same warp…. The above photo isn’t great – took it with my Blackberry and the focus is ‘off’, but it shows the drape and the slight irridescence of the fabric quite nicely. The shawls in the above photos were woven quite a long time ago. It…
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End of the Line
A few months ago I posted a photo of the box of painted warps to be done. Today this is all there is in the box. Today I wove 3 scarves, and just now beamed the 3rd last warp. I have really enjoyed making these scarves, in spite of having to wrestle them onto the…
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Musings
Mt. Finishing – good thing Mizz B got 7 more shawls fringe twisted as I sold all except one this weekend…. It was an interesting weekend. Saturday Mizz B came to mind my booth so that I could attend the 70th bd of a dear friend. While there I was chatting with some of the…
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Studio Fair Day 2 Dawning
This is a view similar to the one I took yesterday but a little closer – and better colour because I brought my camera. The phone camera washes the colour out too much. I wasn’t happy with the placement of the mirror (which I ‘hid’ with some wool scarves) but it was about the best…