week 47 - Craft Fair Success!!!

After feeling really stressed and overwhelmed, the Kirkgate Studios & Workshop stall at our local craft fair came off really well - I should have not been so worried! We had way too much stuff to sell...I think we overdid it on different kinds of items, but we will be more targeted next year!

Knitted mittens, hats and soft toys:


Pottery & Jewellery:


We sold £466.50 worth of items, which I think is fantastic. The fair was busy but the other market traders said that people were not buying as much as in previous years - but we couldn't complain!

We have another 2 days to sell the remaining stock (we have so much left!) at Shipley Market on Dec 10 and 11th! Come along if you weren't able to make it last weekend to Saltaire!

Week 33 - Kids activites at Saltaire Festival

The preparation has taken a lot of time and hard work but it was worth it on the day! The fundraising team ran 2 free kids activities: Fabric Cupcakes and the Large Knitting Nancy.

It made a lovely addition to the children's area of Saltaire Festival and was extremely successful considering that we had a rainy morning and didn't have many visitors on the stall until about 1pm when the sun came out!

We also had Cupcake Craft Packs for sale and we sold 40 of these so we did a bit of fundraising for Kirkgate Studios & Workshops on the day as well!!

Kirkgate Studios & Workshops Stall



Fabric Cupcakes

Essential cupcake materials


Getting started with the help from KS&W volunteer Fiona.


Pleased as punch!


More happy participants...






Knitting Nancy



Look at all this lovely fabric!


Getting started...(and making good use of balloons!)






The knitted tube grows...


All in all it was a great day and volunteers and participants really enjoyed themselves!
The following day our Woodworks tutor John was on the stall with his 'bug houses' which were also very popular!! John will be out again next Saturday & Sunday so come and see our stall!!