Craft show over for another year

On Sunday the craft show ended for another year. It was a fabulous show in a lovely new venue. I sold many copies of my new book and shared the embroidery from it with many, many people. I did little demos of how to stitch the knots, and explained where it came from. A common misconception was that the book is about Scandinavian knotted embroidery! No, it comes from Sardinia in Italy. 🙂

It was lovely to meet some more of my blog readers, and to see many familiar faces again. Seeing that was my fifth show, I am really enjoying seeing people year after year. I have rebooked for next year, so I’ll be back again.

Some people asked what I am working on now. “My eighth book, and no, I’m not saying what it is yet!” I hope to have it ready for next year’s show, but that will be harder as the show will move back to its regular timeslot in June, rather than July as it was just for this year. It means I need to get cracking on writing this book! I have a couple of projects done already, and am currently working on another.

I only bought two things at the show: 2 metres of black wool coating, and 2 metres of blue wool coating. Both were ridiculously on special on the last day of the show. I’d like to make a jacket out of one, and a coat out of the other. I’d like to put an embroidered collar on the jacket. I think I’ll probably make the blue one the jacket and the black one the coat.

If you were put off going to the show this year by its new location, please may I encourage you to rethink that for next year? It really isn’t much further or longer, when you take the ferry from Darling Harbour.

Thank you to all who came to visit my stand at the show, to see the embroidery and to purchase my products. I really do appreciate your support of my business. I hope you enjoy what you purchased, and if you have any questions, you know that you can always ask me!

See you all again in June next year!