Craft Fair Vendor Tips

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The season of holiday Craft Fairs is quickly approaching.

Christin Sander offers tips to vendors on how to set up booths and to sell their items at the Craft Fairs. She includes a handy checklist of items necessary for a day of vending.
Her tips can be found here.

More tips can be found on the website The Craft Booth

Therapy Mitts

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Crafters' hands often suffer from repeated movements. Therapy Hand Mitts might be helpful in easing the pain.

We All Sew presents a photo and step by step tutorial for making Therapy Hand Mitts.

Making a Lark's Head Knot

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The lark’s head is an enormously useful knot and quick to make once you’ve mastered the thumb and finger pinch action. It’s great to use when you have an intact circle with no ends available, such as a rubber band, or when you have a loop. It also can be made with a length of string folded in half (with two tails). It’s used to attach things—what is to be attached is encircled and held secure in the knot’s loop, which draws up and holds the object tightly. It is extremely secure and can’t come undone.

Peggy Osterkamp shares two methods for making a Lark's Head Knot on Peggy's Weaving Tips' post.

Spindle Storage

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Need something to store drop spindles to keep them contained and safe from breakage when traveling or simply for easier portability?

Simply Notable shares a tutorial on making a travel case to contain a drop spindle and roving.

Bobbin Storage Tip

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Anyone who sews knows that storing bobbins without loose threads is a challenge. Some people use small hair ties to secure the thread, but then it is nearly impossible to see at a glance what color the thread it.

We All Sew offers a clear solution in a Thread Storage post.

October Show and Tell - Fabric

Mary H. displays an English Paper-Piecing project in progress.

Mary encouraged the members to look at the back of the
hexagons to see the process involved in English Paper-Piecing.

Nancy S. made an English Paper-Piecing table mat

Nancy S. shared two examples of InkTense she completed
at the Lander Art Center with the Lander Sewing Group.

New member, Deidre F. proudly shows her quilting project,
the first one she's done on her own.

Sandy W. dyed a silk scarf with bleeding art tissue. 

Patrick and Briana are officially engaged.
Best Wishes from the Guild.

October Show and Tell - Knit and Crochet

Dana H. knit a pair of moccasins that will be felted (technically,
fulled). 

Dana told members that Plastic-Dip, a rubberized substance used to make tool handles easier to grip and to water-proof is wonderful to use on the bottom of slippers - just add some dots of the substance to the slipper soles. It is also washable.

New member, Sam G. brought an adorable
giraffe that she crocheted. 

Sandy W. is knitting mittens for an Advent calendar.
She said, "I only have 20 more to knit!"

Sandy's mittens were knit with the Smitten (a Holiday Garland) pattern, available free on Knit Picks.

Laura B. shows a Fan Mitten she knit. The technique
is very similar with enterlac knitting.