This past weekend I had a booth at a local Spring Craft Fair. Funny thing is - I woke up to a very snowy day! Someone forgot to tell the weather here in NY that it is now supposed to be Spring.
Anyway, for the sale, I made more of the lovely vintage fabric hearts. Didn't I say that I would love to make more of them? They are so much fun to make.
Start with a fabric heart for the background, add strips of various fabrics like you're making a crazy quilt, add some lace and fancy stitches along the seams. Then stitch together the heart front to the backing. Turn and embellish with some fabric yo-yo's and fancy buttons. I hand-sewed the hanging ribbon to the top at the very end and added a button to cover up the ribbon ends.
Before the sale, I shopped around at a couple of flea markets and picked up this vintage wire shelf. I put some of my items on it for a display. Even the antique linens that I had on display were for sale!
Check out this little vintage jar that I filled with antique spools of thread and embellished with some ribbon and stamping. Of course the threads were peach, pink, cream and purple!
I crocheted some face scrubbies in colors to match all of my items so that every item had something to "go with it" in coordinating colors! The idea paid off when I showed each customer that every item had things to match it.
Little fabric bunnies were in abundance at my table. I made them in peach, pink, cream and purples.
And what would bunnies be without carrots? I have been wanting to make these for a couple of years and finally sat down to do it. I cut out a long triangle, sewed up the two sides, then turned and stuffed them. Then I gathered the top edge and stitched the oval leaves right into the gather. I finished them off with a ribbon on the top. I love how they turned out.
Then I made some epsom salt "bath teas" to go along with the crocheted face scrubbies. I love to use epsom salts when I take a bath. I decored them using toppers for the bags in the matching colors.
Remember the fabric flowers from last summer's Boho party? I added some stamped cards to clip them onto (using all the same colors) and they sold like hotcakes!
My biggest seller was the matching cards. I sold every card along with a coordinating item.
And who wouldn't want one of these lovely gifts?
