"You like me....You really like me!"

This weekend was my first foray into selling my yarn to the general public face to face. And it went well.....really well!
I had a booth at the local Piecemakers Harvest Craft Fair and sat there for 2 days spinning and chatting with all kinds of people. There were people that walked up to my table and "Ooooo" while touching and squeezing the twisty colorful hanks but then they'd look up and say "what is this?". They didn't realize that it was yarn. I guess when you aren't familiar with handspun and all you see are factory spun balls and hanks at your local Michaels you wouldn't know yarn comes in other forms. Anyways.... there were only a few of those people. For the most part it was people that were facinated by the whole dying and spinning process and coudn't decide which loveley hand to take home. Lots of children would stop thier parents and come stand by me as i spun away and explained how the "fluff" came from the sheep and what i did to it. I think that was my favorite part of the weekend......explaining the process to thecurious and wide eyed kids.
By the end of Saturday my inventory was severly depleted. I had sold more than half of what i brought with me! My dress form was naked of her scarves and accessories - all sold!

Anne, Aubrey and several people from our Weds night knitting group came down to visit with me throughout the day and i met several people that might come by some Weds night to knit with us.
On Saturday night when i got home i scoured the house for more knit accessories to adorn the dress form, worked up a quick scarf and dug out a few hats to bring along for Sunday. Sunday moring i ditched the baskets the yarn had been in the previous day and spread out my remaining inventory on the sheep printed tablecloth. Everything filled in nicely and it didn't look as sparce as when i worried it might.
Sunday was a slower day as far as attendace but there was a slow steady pace of purchases and it was a good day afterall. Rachel came by and sat with me for a while and knit while helping out with customers. She also brought yummy apple cupcakse to snak on. Yum!
Anne came by and put up some of her beautiful handdyed yarn and people were ooo'ing and aaahhh'ing over those as well. It was nice to see her selling some stuff as well. She even did a little drop spindle demo for a fellow spinner!
Overall the weekend was a success! I made way more than i would have anticipated and i will be doing it again in December. Anne is going to share the booth and i think we are going to make a killing!