If you're a Torontonian crafter looking to start doing fairs, I highly recommend it. Leslieville has great foot traffic, the set-up has a good flow, the table fee is quite reasonable ($25!), and any festival that comes with music and a pile of compost is alright by me :-)
Right after that Safiya and I left for the week to go up north with friends. We missed Mr. S., but it was really good to get away and commune with the horseflies and blackflies and mosquitos and no-see-ums.....Poor Safiya looks afflicted.....But honestly, it was precious time spent with a great friend and kids galore, so Safiya and I both came back home very happy campers....Of course, my camera's batteries died the first day (and I was too lazy to recharge them), so the only pictures I have are the ones that Safiya took of her friend Finn's beloved Thomas the Tank Engine, and I'm going to post it here, if only selfishly to invoke memories of that week, so there :-) A week of playing, gabbing, snuggling, reading, eating, some sleep, a hike in the woods, and very very very muddy children.....
We got back, threw all our stuff on the floor, and I promptly started making cupcakes. My little brother is getting married next Saturday (yay!), and - gulp! - I'm catering the wedding! Thank goodness it's a small elegant get-together outdoors and not a 200 plate dinner (to which I wouldn't have agreed anyway, 'cause although I love my little brother to bits, I'm not that crazy :-) So , there's going to be baking and cooking galore for the next week, and I'll probably be away from here until after that....
And of course I left my extra batteries and charger up north, so I can't show you the latest development (and no, I'm not pregnant!). So, all this sewing, and does Safiya have any clothes? Of course not! Because Mama, despite the smock and the skirt a year ago (both made without having to read a pattern), manages very well making things that are variations on squares, but is afraid of patterns. Patterns contain lingo.
Yesterday, seized by this-shoemaker's-daughter-having-no-shoes-thing-is-too-ridiculous, I used a pattern to make a dress. And then shorts. And, as I said to Mr. S.,
"Dude! I can make clothes!"
I think I'm hooked, and now a whole new world of sewing awaits!
Yippee!
3 comments:
If I'd known you were this productive without your camera I'd have taken your batteries a long time ago.
Let's vote, should I tell Marnie I have her batteries, in my knitting bag in the city, at this very moment or should we hold out for even more productivity?
Maybe I'll just hold on to this little insight for next year's festival season...
ha ha ha....holding my batteries hostage, eh? and it's not like i can negotiate for their release by, say, offering sewn goods or anything, 'cause that's your point in the first place ;-)
my batteries (if i ever get them back) will be in lock-down during any future craft fair extravaganzas - i'll be watching out for you, Katharine! (and anybody else who is in cahoots with her!)
free the batteries!
just to report, Katharine's been a doll and returned my charger. but don't think that means i'm letting down my guard....
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