Amusing and unexpected

[altivo]

We can sometimes find ourselves appearing in unexpected places. For example, earlier this week, Gary happened to spot a flyer advertising this year's Autumn Drive, a flea market arts festival that runs along the length of our road each autumn, during the fall color and apple season. His photo was on the front page, showing him playing hammered dulcimer at the farm across the road during last year's Drive.

Well, now it's my turn. The Midwest Fiber & Folk Art Fair, scheduled to take place next July (2007), has a photo on its web site that includes me. In fact, there are two that I noticed. One is embedded in a flash slide show on the front page. The "Demos" slide was taken four years ago when a group from one of my guilds demonstrated spinning and weaving by creating a shawl in one day. The shawl was auctioned off to raise money for restoring the Dole Mansion. If you wait for it to come up, I'm the one in the red sweatshirt, leaning over the loom at the right of the "Demos" photograph. I wove the shawl, while five spinners created the yarn I was using for weaving.

The other photo is tiny, and can be seen here. The finished shawl is being displayed (folded, it was seven feet long) and I am standing in the background.

In other news, it's raining again. ;p

[Edit: I was wrong about the date of those photos. It was June 28, 2003, so not four years ago but three. Gary is back from Urbana/Champaign now and pulled out his own photos of the event. Turns out he took the smaller one. I'll nab a couple of better ones from his files and post them later today.]

A selection of full sized photos of the shawl process can be found here.

Comments

[vimsig.livejournal.com]

waves at altivo How lovely to espy you in the 'real'

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Oh, I do show up now and then. ;p

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Check the post again. I've uploaded a dozen or so full sized images of that day's events.

[vimsig.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I have just had a gander and it all looks such fun.

I have been given a small loom that I have no idea how to use - I'll post a picture of it later.

[pioneer11.livejournal.com]

I'm to paranoid to let that happen!

But cool.

^_^

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Paranoid of what? Is Homeland Security looking for you or something? ;p

[pioneer11.livejournal.com]

Back in the 90s I advocated the use of Peanut Butter as a way
to avoid drunk driving breathalyzer tests.

Their still after me.

XD

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Peanut butter? What do you do, smear it on the breathalyzer? ;p

[pioneer11.livejournal.com]

You eat two tablespoons of it before you drive.

Usually its so sticky you can't get to the car, going;

*camera angle from above, a guy staggering around*

"Mah...mah...thith ithinth...oh heth..."

And going home.

@.@

Dangerous stuff!!

[pioneer11.livejournal.com]

That Fair looks interesting. If I'm out that way I'll stop
and buy something. I'm hip to handmade stuff. I'm too poor
to do it for yuppie reasons, I like it cause its got
roots to a time when people did for themselves.

As a thought, do you sell stuff online?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Heh. I don't sell stuff at all any more. I learned a long time ago (1988 or thereabouts) that people have no sense of the effort that goes into handmade items, and will simply compare them to the price they would pay at Wal*Mart or Target for things made in a factory in Asia by slave labor that gets paid 25 cents a day or something. It's not worth the hassle and insults. Believe me, I've heard it all, everything from the woman who insisted I was lying and couldn't have made those things myself to the man who was angry that the prices were "so high" that I was just ripping people off. And that was not even paying myself minimum wage for my time, let alone the fact that I designed everything and they were all originals. So poo. I make what pleases me, and give it to people whom I feel deserve and will appreciate it.