It begins... craft festivals etc., 2005

[lissa_dora]

This begins a partial listing. "Rochester has two seasons, Winter and Festival," and we are fast approaching Festival season. Whee!

Lilac Festival May 13-22

100 American Craftsmen Festival June 3, 4 and 5

Fairport Canal Days June 4-5

Keuka Lake Art Show - Hammondsport, NY July 10-11

Corn Hill Arts Festival - July 9- 10

Comments

[eamclaren]

Off the cuff I want to hit Lilac Festival, Fairport Canal Days, Corn Hill, and Park Ave, also Clothesline. Any others I would like?

[lissa_dora]

Not sure yet. On this list, those are the ones we attended last year (with the addition of Spencerport Canal Days, which you went to with me).... oh... the Canandaigua Downtown Arts Festival (or whatever we actually went to last year) was pretty cool as well.

Still hashing out the list.

[eseme]

Wheeeeee!

I love festivals.

None has ever held the place of my beloved Maine Festival. Arts and crafts for sale, and if you can't afford to buy stuff, there were make it yourself tents! Music! Dance! And if you volunteered six hours, a free t-shirt and admittace!

Sadly, they were so non-profit as to go bankrupt. Sigh. Loved that festival.

Would be very happy to tag along on festival visits. I have never been to any of the various canal days. I like Lilac, and Corn Hill, and think a Nature Arts fest sounds neat but is the weekend of Becky's wedding and the arrival of the new Harry Potter Book.

If you want company, let me know. My Lilac Festival outfit can make another appearance, including the outrageous hat.

[virgohippy]

i should find more crafty people in my area.

what kinds of crafts do you enjoy doing?

[lissa_dora]

Not doing so much as looking at and buying, at least in terms of the shows listed...

I, personally, sew, which almost counts as a craft, and am sort of puttering at learning woodwork. What do you do?

[virgohippy]

not too much. i crochet custom fit items as gifts for friends and family fairly regularly; i've done a few odd woodworking projects here and there, even a little carving with a hand-made knife; i make my own jewelry and do a lot of beadwork and macramae(sp?), something i get a lot of attention for, i might add; i've made a few pillows from interestingly colored/textured scraps of cloth laying around; my journal is fairly ecclectic in design; and i've been responsible for assembling and decorating a few family photo albums over the years.

i'm just one of those people who enjoys working with his hands, i guess. crafts are a wonderfully effective way of relieving anxiety, which i have a hard time dealing with otherwise.

and i would consider sewing and woodwork a craft; so that makes you a crafty person. =)

[lissa_dora]

You crochet? That's so neat! *poings* I've been wanting to learn to crocet for years but I haven't the patience to sit down with a teacher... nor do I have a teachetr.

macramé is correct, I think; my hippy-dad taught my mom some decades ago, who then taught me. I mades lots of plant hangers when I was younger.

What sort of beadwork?

*nods* Sewing relieves no anxiety for me, but freinship-bracelt-scale macramé does, sometimes (except the stupid arthritis), and writing does much better for that.

I consider me crafty as well ;-) Just not when going to craft fests - then I'm artsy.