And the winner of the Wardrobe Embroidery book is….. Colleen!! Congratulations Colleen!! Keep an eye out for an email from me to day to get the details for where to send your copy.

This past weekend I did my first craft show as Knitted Bliss Stitching at the Craftadian craft show in Hamilton, and I think it went really well. I learned SO much about prepping for a craft show, and things I would definitely bring  or do differently next time. For example- even though I absolutely never like business cards, apparently you really need them because lots of people ask you for them! I tend to just look them up on social media and follow them right away so I can have a visual reminder of them later on, because I’m not likely to go through business cards after a craft show and look up their websites, but I guess I’m wrong about that, people love business cards! I will get some for next time.

Also – I need bags. AND I need a hand truck/dolly. Seeing the other vendors setting up and popping their boxes and such onto their own hand trucks looked pretty smart, while I stood outside on a loading dock waiting for one of the on-site ones to become free.

I also was seated next to Earth Love Bath & Body and I felt like I learned so much more about craft shows from her, while we chatted in the slow bits that happened here and there. Not to mention her stuff was amazing, and I definitely left with some goodies! I was surprised that the mugs (see photos) which I got specifically for craft shows- they are $10 each and the shipping is at least $12 for each, so they don’t make sense to mail to anyone- didn’t do that well, and I was shocked. So cute! So affordable! Why weren’t they moving quickly? So I asked Monica of Earth Love Bath & Body what products she had that she loved and thought should do a lot better than they did, and her face lit up and she talked about one of her favourite products, and how every maker has a product that they think should be a huge hit that somehow doesn’t always get the attention it deserves. I have been mulling that over since Saturday, especially when she said that every show was different and often something that sells well at one show won’t sell well at the next, and then pick back up again later on, etc. So I feel like there’s hope for the mugs yet!

I will definitely do craft shows again in the future (and Hamilton is such a great city, I like it there so much), but next I’d really like to do a knitting festival! If you know of any that are in Ontario, feel free to share with me so I can put them on my radar, and hopefully apply. 🙂