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Ok, so I didn’t mean to leave you all hanging. I can’t believe it’s been almost a week since the bird fair and I haven’t posted about it!
Funnily enough, that big prototype bird was the first one to sell! (On the right in this photo)
So, I spent a couple of months putting crochet above my other priorities, and I was still only able to make a small portion of what I had imagined. I have SOOOO much “bird and chicken” yarn leftover! Each one takes so long.
It takes at least an hour to get a chicken to this point:
I do think I was starting to get faster, though, because after so many, I didn’t have to refer to the pattern for the repetitive parts.
A sulphur crested cockatoo and a normal cockatiel:
Here are all the chickens I finished before the fair:
And the top photo above was all the caged birds I had done. I also started on 3 more caged birds, but didn’t finish them:
(Rainbow Lorikeet and 2 Peach Faced Lovebirds)
My sister got really excited about the project, since she was the one who got me started with the emotional support chickens. She is a knitting addict, so she started sending me photos of all these birds she was making. Then she said she wanted to ship them to me for the bird fair. (From New Jersey.)
So these are her contributions:
Better photo coming in the next post. I’m at my 10 photo limit.
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Here is my vendor table before the fair opened:
Counterclockwise starting with the seagull, Baltimore oriole, cardinal, quetzal, owl, bluebird, blue tit, and fuzzy unknown baby bird.
Sadly, only 3 of these sold. I even marked everything half off at noon, but either they weren’t appealing to the target market, or I had them priced too high. The caged birds, however, all sold, and most of the chickens. I wish I would have gotten more caged birds finished. In the afternoon there was a lull, and I was able to sit down and finish the last 3, but by then traffic had slowed down and none of those 3 sold.
I briefly considered doing a future bird fair just to sell crocheted birds, but it wouldn’t be profitable. Might break even, but it’s too time consuming to just do it for fun. I did get one lady who took down my name and number because she thinks the emotional support chickens would make great awards for her 4H fair poultry kids. I got the impression she runs that part. So she will get back to me on what colors and sizes she wants. Again, I don’t think I could charge her enough to make it profitable for me, but as long as it covered my expenses, I wouldn’t mind donating my time to help out for the fair.
Ok, so part way through the fair I only had this much stuff left:
And here is what I took away:
And only the tub on the left of personal belongings and unsold birds made it home. The other two white items got dropped off at Goodwill on the way. So yay! Another huge hole in my basement mess!
I am getting very close to being able to show you the after photos.
The plan for this weekend: Thin my collection of children’s books in half and remove one of the 3 book cases they are on. The shelves are all double-stacked, so I don’t know if half of the books can even fit on 2/3 of the shelves.
One of my favorite things when my 5 kids were little was to buy them books. (And read to them, of course.) I have kept so many of those books. I had hopes of my grandchildren enjoying browsing through my library stacks and picking out vintage books to read from their parents’ generation. That may still happen. The oldest two are just getting into the age of reading. And I might not be done getting new grandchildren. But I think I can safely say that half of what I’ve got down there will still be plenty!
Ok, looks like I’ve made up for the huge gap between posts by writing a giant one.
Counterclockwise starting with the seagull, Baltimore oriole, cardinal, quetzal, owl, bluebird, blue tit, and fuzzy unknown baby bird.
Sadly, only 3 of these sold. I even marked everything half off at noon, but either they weren’t appealing to the target market, or I had them priced too high. The caged birds, however, all sold, and most of the chickens. I wish I would have gotten more caged birds finished. In the afternoon there was a lull, and I was able to sit down and finish the last 3, but by then traffic had slowed down and none of those 3 sold.
I briefly considered doing a future bird fair just to sell crocheted birds, but it wouldn’t be profitable. Might break even, but it’s too time consuming to just do it for fun. I did get one lady who took down my name and number because she thinks the emotional support chickens would make great awards for her 4H fair poultry kids. I got the impression she runs that part. So she will get back to me on what colors and sizes she wants. Again, I don’t think I could charge her enough to make it profitable for me, but as long as it covered my expenses, I wouldn’t mind donating my time to help out for the fair.
Ok, so part way through the fair I only had this much stuff left:
And here is what I took away:
And only the tub on the left of personal belongings and unsold birds made it home. The other two white items got dropped off at Goodwill on the way. So yay! Another huge hole in my basement mess!
I am getting very close to being able to show you the after photos.
The plan for this weekend: Thin my collection of children’s books in half and remove one of the 3 book cases they are on. The shelves are all double-stacked, so I don’t know if half of the books can even fit on 2/3 of the shelves.
One of my favorite things when my 5 kids were little was to buy them books. (And read to them, of course.) I have kept so many of those books. I had hopes of my grandchildren enjoying browsing through my library stacks and picking out vintage books to read from their parents’ generation. That may still happen. The oldest two are just getting into the age of reading. And I might not be done getting new grandchildren. But I think I can safely say that half of what I’ve got down there will still be plenty!
Ok, looks like I’ve made up for the huge gap between posts by writing a giant one.
