Lovely things I didn't buy

Last weekend I bought myself a weekend pass to go to the lovely juried craft show at the Crafts at the Cathedral at St John the Divine, a pleasant walk uptown. You can browse all of the makers that are on the link.

I am just goong to suggest some fiber folks who deserve a closer look.Did I buy anything? No, I did not. No because I didn't ;ove so much of what I was looking at...but because I make so many of my own clothes.

I did want to point out a few makers whose work I especially liked.

https://www.reintsemadesigns.com/s/shop If I were the owner of an art gallery, or the business manager of an arts organization, of the head of development in an arts organization I would buy all of my clothes here.

https://www.kbeckerdesigns.com/collections/all?page=2#collection_root

These clothes look so incredibly good in real life.

They are the sorts of clothes that could be worn endlessly in a million different combinations by anyone. Think Eileen Fisher but fitted rather than monastic. Believe me these clothes look better in real life than they do on the webpage.

The jackets and scarves of https://www.cjosephny.com/ also look better in real life than they do on the webpage.She used fabrics frommen'swear especially fancy tie fabrics to make scarves so beautiful I wanted to cry.

Her jackets

look relatively sedate---until you touch them. They are made out of the most luscious wool, it is lightweight and unbelieveably soft.

I had a great time and my head is full of ideas and my pocketbook is still full.

Yesterday I also didn't buy these silver-plate

Presidential collector spoons.

They were charmings but the quality wasn't great and we REALLY don't need them. The quality of the engraving is low enough that these might have been give-aways in boxes of cereal or the like.

I amglad that I got to see them. I shwed the photos to my husband.He preferred seeing the photos to owning them

My challot are baking as I type this.

I still have to make our vegetable,(braised leeks and tomatoes).

This video of Gordeon from Sesame street biking in the neighborhood just showed ip on my Facebook feed. For those who actually live in the neighborhood he is boking about ten or fifteen blocks south of my apartment but nice to see the neighborhood from the mid 1970s.

and a bit of Chanukah prep...

Shabbat Shalom to all of you...time to go cook some leeks!

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