fabric snap wallets

These little wallets are churning out of the sewing machine this week. I'm enjoying the technicolor "sailorette" and "garden girl" themes which have inspired this round of fabric selections. Planning on filling all the pockets with arty ticket stubs and cards from the little shops I love and cafes I pop into.

The wallets are for sale at Polk*A*Dot on Polk Street at Clay, which is only the most adorable kitchy office supply & sundries shop ever.

l'stell bags at fiber frolic

The knobs on the back wall of my Mummsie's both at the Fiber Frolic were perfect for hanging all the starlit* bags I had made, although I felt guilty taking up such prime real estate. Little Miss Violet was haning out with us since her Momma had made bags & natural dyed roving to sell in the booth as well. Little V was sporting her Geri Valentine sweater and getting so many ooh's-and-ahh's. It sure doesn't hurt when your Momma is friends with amazing knitting designers who get interviewed for knitting non-fictions and create a limited number of custom-order only sweaters a year. This must be how those socialite girls live who trapse about town in gifted designer frocks, being Muses for the runway. Oh, the fabulous knitted life.

girls who bought bags & how much i ❤ them

My first customers! Missing from the photo are their coordinating Croqs - very Maine Fiber Frolic fabulous. The Fiber Frolic is one of those great agricultural fairs in the later Maine summer. With livestock to pet, crafts to buy (read: yarn stash to SERIOUSLY enhance) and a llama drill team routine to watch... Yes, that's right, Llama Drill Team. Llama people leading about their awkward South American friends in formation to such timeless classics as Elton John's "Can You Feel the Love Tonight". Seriously, my sister & I can't miss it. The llamas and their handlers wear matching neckerchiefs and Babycakes & I have to sit in the back of the bleachers because our giggles are just indecent. I think even my brother, The Dude gives the llama drill team a thumbs-up for entertainment factor.

When the Girls Who Bought Bags were sighted later sporting their purchases, I had to ask them to pose for a quick photo. I was so deliriously happy, I felt like I had spotted celebrities. How hard it is to believe sometimes that people find the things you make as irresistibly cute as you'd like to imagine you designed them to be. Of course the LDT has no problems with this. They can feel the love tonight.