The Museum Show

My space at the show is right across from Anne Fischer, an extraordinary fiber artist. She is stitching royalty to me! Besides these outstanding quilts, she makes a whole variety of fiber objects - including earrings made of thread, colorful hand dyed sports bras and fabric pins, purses and more. I bought one of her fabric pins at a Casa Larga show a few years ago that I still wear a lot. She and I are working a trade at this show so I see another pin in my future.

She is the one who turned me on to the vendor application for the Genesee Valley Quilt Club's show, which turned out to be such a success for me and a real turning point in finding my niche. Those quilters loved my stuff!

The above quilt was at the Quilt Show and seeing her work in person is breathtaking. I think I blogged about her back then but I don't have time to look it up now. She uses a regular sewing machine, nothing computerized. I cannot say enough about her work!

She also sells her work at Artizann's in Naples, where my Sticky Notes are sold. I told her I'm so pleased I get to sit across from her for 2-1/2 days and stare at her work!

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I have to chuckle at the number of people who have emailed me to say they want to see the Sticky Notes that I consider too ugly to sell. I'd already taken those apart but I came across some others the other day so I will post them after this weekend. I suspect I'll get the same number of emails, "Uh, so yeah, Stef. You were right. Fug-ly!"

My first thought was to sell them at discounted prices but they didn't even make the cut for that. And Leslie, in answer to your question, how do you label those for sale - I call them "Retired Designs". Classy, huh? I learned that from someone else, Alyson Stanfield, I think it was.

In fact, I have some Christmas cards that are rubber stamped, pieced paper, etc. that have no stitching that I was going to sell as retired designs at this show. I even made a nice sign for the display. Then at the last minute, I threw them in the spinner with my new Christmas cards - and people are liking them, even sold a couple last night. These aren't ugly though, they just don't represent me any more.

I love, love, love this show. I tell people if they can only go to one craft show per year, go to this one. I think last night was a good night for me. It was quite crowded - I even had a line in my booth at one point, people waiting to pay for stuff. I have a feeling this is going to be my best show to date. I'm in the front, larger building this time, 2nd floor - stop by!

39th Annual Holiday Bazaar
Friday November 20, 5:00-9:00

Saturday November 21, 9:30-5:00
Sunday November 22, 11:00-4:00

Rochester Museum & Science Center Holiday Bazaar

657 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607

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