In the meantime, I am happily crocheting my little lariats and bracelets. I will be taking them with me this week to the Momence Farmers' Market in hope of a few quick sales. The Momence market will be held every Wednesday afternoon from 3 to 6 starting this week and running through October. They are trying to expand the market to include arts and crafts this year. As a result, they are offering spaces to crafters/artisans for free this year. If we can get a big enough turnout due to the crafts, next year we may have to pay for the space, but for now, since it's free, I'm going to try it out. I'll be taking my jewelry, some baby things and my table linens, to start. I hope to add things as time goes on.
Anyway, because I'd decided to do the farmers' market, I needed to expand my jewelry inventory. That is why I started making the crocheted jewelry. I'm hoping that it's still popular enough to generate some sales. Here's a photo of one of my bracelets. It's made of multi-colored E beads on a purple crochet thread. I just made a simple tube and sewed it into a ring. There is no clasp. It simply has enough stretch to slip on and off over your hand.
I'm also working on a 1-1/2 inch wide peyote stitch bracelet made of aqua colored glass E beads, a half inch dark purple peyote bracelet, a white rope necklace with lavendar seed beads, a white lariat with white pearls and a green lariat with green seed beads. If I'm a good little girl, I should have almost all of them finished before the farmers' market. And if I'm going to actually do that, I have to get off the computer now. I'll let you know how it all turns out in my next post.
