Shamrock Garland

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. And when you make too many shamrock pins for a craft fair; make St. Patrick’s Day garland!

The pattern for these shamrocks came from  the 1984 Leisure Arts leaflet 328; “Holiday ‘Fridgies’ to Crochet.”  Though this leaflet is 27 years old, you can still find it for sale online at places like Ebay, Etsy vintage, and other sites.  Or, if you are lucky like me, perhaps you already have a vintage shamrock pattern bequeathed to you by a relative.

To make the garland, I first carefully removed all of the pins from the backs of the shamrocks so as not to damage them and so that I could use the pins for future projects.  Then, using my light green yarn I made a chain, attaching the shamrocks at regular intervals using a single crochet stitch.  That was it!  Now we have a pretty garland to dress up our dinning room window or fireplace.

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The Cleveland Craft Coalition Art and Craft Bazaar; March, 2011

Above; Nicki and her Zombie Socks.  Aren’t they the cutest little monsters you’ve ever seen?

Yesterday was the Cleveland Craft Coalition Art and Craft Bazaar for March 2011 held at Bela Dubby cafe/bar.

Unfortunately, the turn out wasn’t as much as I had hoped for but…maybe next time.

Despite the low traffic, I did enjoy participating in the craft fair, if only for the opportunity to hang out with a group of very talented people who enjoy making quirky and interesting objects.

Here I will share the work of [most] of the individuals attending yesterday’s bazaar (there were a couple of booths that I missed including Christin who had beautiful ceramics and is part owner of the new shop Crafty Goodness).

Above two; these lovely ladies crank out some pretty awesome and funky hair accessories adorned with everything from feathers, to ribbon, to plastic skeleton hands giving you the finger for Hissyfit Hairbows.

Above; Renee with some fun St Patrick’s Day tees made by her and bottle cap belts made by her husband.  Check out more of her tees at her two Etsy shops here and here.

Above: Therese with Keyhole Gallery behind her table of wonders!

Above; Jennifer and her lovely recycled glass jewelery.

Above; Willow came to the show with some pretty cool photos and painted glass but she doesn’t have a blog or Etsy shop…yet.

Above; Amy with Tinypop Treats. In addition to participating at nearly all the CCC Art and Craft Bazaars, Amy can cater your next event!  Everyone loves chocolate…Yum!

Lucky Charms

Come to the Cleveland Craft Coalition Art and Craft Bazaar tomorrow to pick up something fun and festive for this St Patrick’s day. I hope to see you there!