We're solidly in our home once again, most of the boxes have been emptied (or hidden in the garage). We made it through shearing 2010 and now I've got almost two full season's worth of fiber to work through, plus a bunch I got from a neighboring farm. Of course now that I've been focusing on the natural colors people are going crazy for my dyed fiber!
Let's see - the latest news was I was a vendor at my first festival - Coupeville Art Festival. For the month prior to The Weekend Tim started doing the Redmond Market - I'd open and then he'd come in around 10am or so to finish the day. He's a natural salesman and of course the ladies love to listen to him go on. I'll definitely get pictures of the man at work at the next market.
Anyway, I was working to make as many laminate scarves as possible - hand dyed silk blended with alpaca. Even the ones I had to redo a bit turned out well - I thought anyway. My favorite was a simple blue silk with black alpaca. I thought it would be the first item to sell when the Festival opened. Needless to say it didn't. Sadly we didn't do as well as I had hoped that weekend and I have to say that the 90 degree weather didn't help. The lady in the booth across the way as a hoot so all in all I had fun, but I doubt we'll do a festival in summer again, unless my non-seasonal items do well.I've also decided I need to revamp the booth layout, again. I'm going to get hooks that allow the scarves to drape better and have something for the hats and purses.
I've been going through Pat Spark's book, "Making Faces" and I'm putting the finishing touches on the moon I made. I've got the cheeks and teeth to do to try and make it not so frightening, but it's almost done. It's so soft and my next one will be better - I hope. But this is part of what I'm calling non-seasonal. I'm also working on more flowers and small animals. I'm out of all of them so I think I may be on the right track.
