{"id":489,"date":"2009-09-05T20:18:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T01:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2011-01-27T09:58:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T14:58:46","slug":"busy-as-abee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2009\/09\/busy-as-abee\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy as a&#8230;bee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been able to post much lately because I&#8217;ve been really busy.  That&#8217;s actually the good news.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elmwoodartfest.org\" target=\"_blank\">Elmwood Avenue Art Festival<\/a> was wonderful for me, despite a downpour Saturday morning, high winds that afternoon, and periodic rain on Sunday.  I sold several of my handwoven scarves, a baby blanket, and a shawl that weekend, plus lots of jewelry.  As a result, I&#8217;ve now got to be busy, busy, busy getting ready for my next show, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amherstmuseum.org\/calendar.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Harvest Craft Festival<\/a> in Amherst, NY.  I&#8217;ll just have my weaving there, so I&#8217;m measuring warp, dressing the loom, weaving, and wet finishing as fast as I can in preparation.  (Actually, I&#8217;ll be demonstrating weaving Brook&#8217;s Bouquet on my little rigid heddle loom at this show.  Stop by and take a look!)  I took a week off from my job at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfeiffernaturecenter.org\" target=\"_blank\"> Pfeiffer Nature Center <\/a>to give me a bit more time.  But it won&#8217;t be enough &#8211; the week after the Harvest Craft Festival I&#8217;m at Quaker Arts Festival in Orchard Park with both my handweaving and my jewelry.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, this is all good news.  Sure, I&#8217;m busy, but that is, after all, the point of having this business making things I love.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-345\" title=\"huck-lace-scarf\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/black-lace-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"huck-lace-scarf\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>So what was the hot weaving item at Elmwood?  I sold all three lace scarves I had, and got orders for three more.  I had two other orders prior to leaving, so I really need to make lace.  I just received the 5 colors of 10\/2 pearl cotton I ordered for them.  I&#8217;m so glad I figured out how to do make <a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2009\/07\/woven-lace-on-a-counterbalance-loom\/\" target=\"_blank\">handwoven lace on my little counterbalance loom<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-493\" title=\"gold-bamboo-handwoven-scarves\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/gold-bamboo-tb.jpg\" alt=\"gold-bamboo-handwoven-scarves\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/>After the lace, the fine gauge bamboo scarves drew lots of attention.  They are so silky looking and feeling that people can&#8217;t resist touching them.  I also received 3 colors of bamboo I ordered for more of these graceful beauties.  So I&#8217;m alternating weaving lace and weaving  bamboo for the next week.<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ll learn in my next post, I&#8217;m still not as busy as a bee.  Stayed tuned and you&#8217;ll see why!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been able to post much lately because I&#8217;ve been really busy. That&#8217;s actually the good news. The Elmwood Avenue Art Festival was wonderful for me, despite a downpour Saturday morning, high winds that afternoon, and periodic rain on Sunday. 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