Renegade Craft Fair Chicago 2011
My sister and I made our annual trek into the city to attend the Renegade Craft Fair on Sept. 10th. It took us almost an hour to find a parking space, and even then it was 6 blocks away, in an ambiguous spot that we could not tell was subject to a one hour time limit or not.
Once there, we realized why. It was PACKED!
Some things that I bought:
Some observations: This was our 4th? 5th year? Each year there is “something” there is too much of. One year it was screened shirts. The next it was prints. This year, there was a dearth of everything, but one thing. “Double booths”. It seemed like many, many artists doubled up in one booth. Presumably this is to cut costs to both artists, but to us it was a cop-out. We wondered if both artists had to jury in or just one of them? And some booths were so packed that we didn’t even go in them and see either artist. It was unfortunate. I go to see 300 juried artists, not 500 but only 300 had to jury in…
Something else we/I noticed: very few artists were willing to say hello or engage in anyway with us when we walked in their booth. Several decided to sit in the back of their booth and craft, not even looking up. One of the people I bought something from gave me a snide answer to a question I had about the item as they were ringing me up. Seriously? If you don’t want to be there, don’t. Otherwise, at least be nice to me when I’m buying your stuff!
The Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago
My sister and I make an annual journey to the Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago from our places in the south suburbs. We got there early, right at opening at 11 am, to a drizzly rain and most of the booths not open and still setting up. We walked the place once around before the rain stopped and the booths really opened.
This n That #7
I’m getting ready to go to Philadelphia to the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza,and I can’t wait!
So much to do before then!
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I’m planning to redesign my main website soon, so that should be completed by the end of the month.
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I have a Halloween costume to plan, and I’m expecting this to take up a good chunk of September and October’s sewing time.
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My sister and I attended the Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago this past weekend, and we both got come crafty mojo. Not many booths selling what we are looking for however…. Sublime Stitching, her favorite, was not there. There were barely any quilts. I did see some bloggers that I follow, like The Small Object, Foundling, and 16 Sparrows. I thought the show was way too heavy on silkscreened t-shirts. In all, it was a good craft show. I bought a fair amount of cool stuff.
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I’ve been recently diagnosed with hypothyroidism, and my new medication has not leveled out yet, so I have the typical fatigue associated with the disease. I can’t wait to get my energy back. Judy Coates Perez has the same thing and recently discussed this on her blog. I may think about switching from synthetic thyroid hormone to natural if I can’t get these levels to normalize soon.
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Football season has started, and so has the fall tv seasons. So much to watch and so little time to do it!