Artisans' Row this Saturday

[chargirlgenius]

Just a quick reminder that we're having an Artisans' Row this weekend at the Storvik Novice/Challenge of the Heart event! Come, hang out, work on stuff, do a little impropmtu and in-context teaching. Whatever floats your boat.

We have quite a few people bringing shade, so we should have a little space to share, but the more shade the better. We'll be setting up in the order that people get on site, but if you haven't let me know if you're bringing a tent, please do, so we can have an idea of what to expect. Folks are welcome to combine merchant and artisans' row space.

Jeff will be on-site starting on Friday evening to direct and help set up. So look for him, not for me. (He'll probably be wearing this, only with a belt and real shoes) Jeff will actually be camping on Friday night!

---

This is kind of a last minute request, and maybe better not done so late. But it also could be fun. Would anybody like to run/participate in a sweatshop? I'm thinking about last year, where all of my friends pitched in to help me finish a dress for Jeff's laurel elevation. I think that if we had enough sewers, we could probably make a dress in a day. Any ideas on what to do, and who to do it for? Would anybody like to coordinate something like that?

---

I also want to work out a better way of differentiating the Artisans' Row from the rest of the event. Last time, people were unsure if the AR tents were something to visit, merchants, or just people's dayshades. I'm thinking a sign at the ends of the Row, with little green banners or ribbons hanging from each tents. God, bad, indifferent?

Comments

[stringmonkey.livejournal.com]

Signage is almost always good.

[maggiebowgirl.livejournal.com]

Have to agree, signs are great. Too often I go to events and am not sure of what is what and I've been in this for a few years now!

[stitchwhich.livejournal.com]

Especially if it is accompanied by, maybe, ribbon wrapped barber-like down one pole of each of the participating pavilions. (I think that would look festive and give the 'I'd like to help" younger set something to do. Not to mention being really eye-catching.)

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I like the pole wrapping idea! That also means that I don't have to really paint each ribbon/banner, but can just buy a bunch of green ribbon.

I was thinking green, since apprentice belts are green. Seemed an artsy-fartsy color.

[glasseye.livejournal.com]

That's a great idea!

Signage and banners are real good things.

Another longer-term possibility is that if the A&S community owns its own tents, it can paint them with the A&S badge. Most of the major kingdom offices in An Tir do that, so it's real easy to find a group at a BIG event. Need a herald? Look for the green pavilion with the yellow crossed trumpets. etc.

[mare-in-flames.livejournal.com]

I am planning on showing up on a daytrip basis and working on as much hand-sewing as I have available to work on - and maybe soaking up some knowledge!

I don't have a period chair, so I will sit on the ground (in someone else's shade if they'll let me).

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

We have two Glastonbury chairs, and four one-butt benches. The one-butt benches will be up for grabs. :-)

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

maybe I *should* go to this event as I haven't seen you in forevers.

[mare-in-flames.livejournal.com]

MouseMouse! Considering my *primary* purpose in attending is to see the friends I never see, it would be awesome. :)

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

MouseMouse! I'll see how I feel on Saturday. Right now I'm too beat to consider it, but some of what's beating me should slow down before the weekend.

[tattycat.livejournal.com]

I'll be there, with the never-ending parade of handsewing, partially finished knitting projects, and a drop spindle.

And I am totally down with the sweatshop idea. I like to hem. I may be a sick, sick woman.

[marietta-sca.livejournal.com]

I love the orange!

[thatpotteryguy.livejournal.com]

I'll be there. Miguel threw me under the Merchant Coordinator bus again, so I kinda hafta be...

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

Hey, that saves me an email, then.

Are there any other merchants who are participating in both the A/R and selling? Since you are (or were planning on it) I was going to decide where you went first. AR would fan out in one direction, and I was thinking that Merchants would fan out in the other.

Jeff will be on site Friday evening and staying over. We're going to make some signs for AR so that people know that we're not just random dayshades, and where the AR ends and merchants begin.