Patchwork Show & My New Booth Sign

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

patchwork show oakland spring 2014

I had a great time at Patchwork on Sunday! Thanks to everyone who came out and said hi. I saw lots of friends from Craftcation and met lots of new crafty friends, too. There were so many cool handmade products and great brands, I wanted to buy everything! :) If you're in the Bay Area, there will be another Patchwork in the Fall. If you're in Socal you're in luck because the next two Patchwork events are coming up in Long Beach and Santa Ana. (Look closely you'll find me in that pic above from the Patchwork Flickr Album, deep in conversation.)

As you can probably imagine, I've been immersed in display design over the past few weeks. I've got most of the details ironed out now, and good thing since I have the SF Bazaar at Maker Faire coming up this weekend. Here's a little peek at some of my process and my finished display.

Untitled

My booth sign was a big to-do item last week. I wanted something big and easy to read that would work with the rest of my set-up. I decided to make a painted muslin banner on wood dowels. The first step was to make a tracing paper transfer.

Untitled

After I transferred the outline to the muslin I painted it in with black screen printing ink. Once the letters were painted I ironed some interfacing to the back and sewed pockets for the dowels. Here it is all done.

Patchwork Show, Oakland, May 2014

With the rest of my new display! I switched over from a two table display to one table and this crate shelving system.

Patchwork Show, Oakland, May 2014

And if you were curious, yes, all of this fits into the MINI, with room to spare! Everything I needed to build and stock my display is in this one car load. I love that MINI of mine. :)

Patchwork Show, Oakland, May 2014

Check out Everything Hunky Dory for a great summary of the day with lots of photos of beautiful handmade products.

7 comments:

  1. Your booth was amazing! So cool you were able to get everything in on one trip. Best of luck selling at the other shows this summer, you're going to nail it :)

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you, Rachel, and thanks for coming out! It was so nice seeing you!

      Delete
  2. Hi! I know this post is from 2014 but I found it searching Pinterest on how to attach my sign to my vendor table. Your sign is lovely. How did you manage to attach it to the table?

    ReplyDelete
  3. Excellent information on your blog , thanks for taking the time to share with us such a pleasant blog norton.com/setup

    ReplyDelete
  4. This is really great work. Thank you for sharing such a useful information here in the blog. I have something to share here norton.com/setup
    www.norton.com/setup

    ReplyDelete

 

vitamini handmade © All rights reserved · Theme by Blog Milk · Blogger