Craft Show

I attended my first craft show as a seller today and took a photo of my stall for you all to see. Sadly, I didn't get a particularly good picture using my IPod's camera, but I think you can see the general feel of the stall. I was selling beaded, snag free knitting stitch markers. It wasn't very successful from a commercial viewpoint; I only sold one item, and made a loss overall. However, it was a good experience and I enjoyed it. The boxes on which the markers are displayed were covered in fabric I had dyed myself a few years ago. They are pinned to the boxes using an idea of RuthieK's. Buttons superglued to push pins. All my buttons were clear plastic with silver glitter inside. To cover the area where the button's holes were, I glued little crystals. This worked really rather nicely I thought, and echoed the shine of the beaded markers.

As you can see, I had some knitting on show, to demonstrate the placement of the markers, and the knitting itself proved to be quite a talking point.

It was a local Christmas fair held in our community centre and I had always known that it was unlikely to be a place where the markers would fly off the stall. However, I wanted a small, local, friendly place to start out in, to see how the stall layout worked, and whether I would find the experience friendly and enjoyable. Overall, I did. I had plenty of people visiting the stall to chat, mainly older people who had knitted in their younger days but no longer did so. Although few people really wanted what I had to sell, a number were intrigued and I had several very interesting conversations with people. I felt that my stall layout worked well, though the covered boxes I was using needed more weight in the bottom as they wobbled a bit when the stall was knocked.

I got a lot of useful feedback from stall visitors and felt it was a very positive experience overall.