Category: craft fairs
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Show Season
Autumn is well advanced now. Many of the trees have dropped their leaves, others are still showing some colour. Nights are getting chilly. It is the time to get winter tires on the vehicles – hopefully in advance of the (ahem) white precipitation! It is also getting very close to show season. Once Doug loads…
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Quiet
The looms have been quiet for a very long time but I am about to go fire up the AVL and see if I can weave again without triggering more issues with my lower back and hip. It is also quiet because a friend who came to visit for the weekend left on the early…
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Mad Scramble
Life keeps tossing small grenades at us. Nothing critical, at least not yet, and I’m keeping positive thoughts that they will have been more flash than bang. But of course I have also been up to my old tricks trying to squeeze one more thing into my schedule here, one more there, generally at the…
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Onwards We Go
The past few days have been spent on some forward planning (as the saying goes). After sorting through all the yarn and selecting that which we would try to sell at Fibres West Doug has spent the last few days breaking the large mill cones down into smaller quantities. I have an industrial cone winder so…
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Prairie Winter and Bean Counting
View to the south east as we left Olds, Alberta, home of the Olds Fibre Week celebrations, and where I will be teaching the Level 2 weaving class next June. 🙂 The drive home was long, especially with both of us tired from two weeks of long trips, hotel beds and long hours on our…
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A New Week
And a new show. Coming to you this time from the convention centre in downtown Calgary, Alberta. The plastic wrap will be removed from the carpet in the morning. There are still people setting up, some crates and hand trucks in the aisles. I sold so much red I don’t have much left to…
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More on Studio Fair
A little better look at the booth. I pay extra for a corner booth which gives good visual exposure and flow through traffic. We bought a new mirror this year – I was tired of the ‘fun house’ effect of my old mirror – which was not free standing and a pain to try and…
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Studio Fair
So this is as far as we got before I caved. Until the overhead lights are off we can’t set our own lighting and it’s hard to know just how it will look with the nasty hall lights killing the colours. What I didn’t quite catch in the photo was….see the catering guy in the…
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Not Quite Over
Apparently 2013 wasn’t quite over after all…. Since my post saying that all production from that day onward would be for 2014, I have finished the blue/green tea towel warp, including hemming most of the 17 towels from that warp, wound a white place mat warp, wove it off, cut and serged ready for wet…
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Pack Up Frenzy
The big advantage to being the last one to pack out is that we miss the frenzy of people trying to get a space to park at the curb…. That isn’t our booth but our neighbour’s. When I took this photo we were still getting stuff loaded into boxes and knocking the booth structure down.…