Shows

Vending a fiber festivals is more challenging than it seems. It is scary to put your art out into the public and hope people value what you like to make The hardest part of the venture is guessing what customers of particular fair are looking for and deciding if you want to invest your time making what sells.

2019

Fort Pierre Dakota Western Heritage Frontier Days September 13 -15 in Fort Pierre, SD

This was a fun show, because it centered around heritage skills. My booth was by a boot maker and a rope maker
Spinning and felting demonstrations
A number of kids were able to try out the spinning wheel and made mini-skeins of yarn
Comparative fleece display
Project bags, dyed fleece, homespun yarns

Hill City Quilt Show, September 7 -8 in Hill City SD

This quilt show is innovative as it wanted to include other fiber arts with the Quilt show
Small art quilts
Homespun yarn
Knitted items
Spinning and needle felting demonstrations
Sheep felted kits

Western Wildlife Art Show, July 1 – 4 at Fort Robinson State Park, NE

This was a fun art show to prepare for. I was able to go into my stash and find all of these wildlife prints for these art quilts. All of these quilts have a sleeve for hanging on the reverse. The quilt names are as follows with their dimensions in inches.

Row 1: Totem Pole (36×21) and Cold Winter’s Night (27×28)

Row 2: Fish Pond (22×25 – below), Evening Landing (18×23 – top) and Fall Hunt (18.5×20 – bottom)

Row 3: , Duck Pond (20×19.5 – top), Horses and Flyfishing (21×26 -bottom) and Wild Horses (27×28 – SOLD!),

Last Image is Menagerie (60×66.5)

If you are interested in any of these quilts, visit my online shop.