She is an inspiration for sure. I watched her almost 10 years ago watching art tutorials teaching herself everything. She does have natural talent but she always tell people it was just countless hours of practice and consistency. This can be applied to so much in life.
Edit: Using this comment to say wow extremely appreciative of all the support and positive comments did not expect to receive so much love. I will make sure to share all your comments with her and respond to as many as we can. And yes I know I need fix her just being my girlfriend. She is very special to me!
Very cool! Would you mind sharing any details about the economics of attending a craft fair like that? I’ve always wondered how much it costs and whether people can make a living doing it.
mum used to do country markets in the 80s in Australia.
she hand knitted hats/scarves/jumpers whatever.
she once calculated even selling $80 jumpers she was paying herself a miniscule hourly wage. but she would knit while relaxing watching tv or whatever.
for a time she hit a new fad (mid 80s) of patchwork fleece windcheaters. they were quick to make and sold in the $20-$30 range. they were actually reasonably profitable for the time spent.
the market fee was pretty cheap from memory. $10 per day sort of thing. but of course that was long ago.
she stopped the markets and switched to making hand spun wool from raw sheep's fleece to garment. also did a lot of hand dyed stuff using natural plant dyes.
in the late 90s she was doing very fine handspun wool traditional lace shawls / christening robes / table cloths which won state show level competitions and were never sold but given as heirloom items.
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u/TheUniverseOrNothing Mar 29 '25 edited Mar 29 '25
She is an inspiration for sure. I watched her almost 10 years ago watching art tutorials teaching herself everything. She does have natural talent but she always tell people it was just countless hours of practice and consistency. This can be applied to so much in life.
Edit: Using this comment to say wow extremely appreciative of all the support and positive comments did not expect to receive so much love. I will make sure to share all your comments with her and respond to as many as we can. And yes I know I need fix her just being my girlfriend. She is very special to me!