Taking a Tiny First Step

Another interest in my life aside from knitting, crocheting, handcrafting, etc., is going to auctions and yardsales. This has complicated my life a bit, as I have years of aquisitions in storage which are collecting dust and costing storage fees.  Recently I leased a booth at  The Scranberry Coop , a cooperative for dealers in Andover, NJ. Wednesdays are my day to go refill the blank spaces in my booth; to replace the sold items with new offerings. It is always a little scarey to do this as I am never sure how much will have been sold. I want there to be a lot of blank spaces to fill in, of course.


I had my selections all tagged and packaged to take to the Scranberry Coop (not a typo, really!) But as I was looking at the newly completed pink alpaca baby outfit somthing came over me; a little voice in my head started nagging at me to take the plunge, put my toe in the water, etc., etc., and package this outfit and put it up for sale.


I had one immediate problem; no hangar to put the sweater on to hang from the side of my booth.  Who has baby hangars if they don't have babies in their househould? Well, I for one, do not. But necessity being the mother and all that, I found a plastic hangar that came with a recently purchased blouse and which I was going to recycle, and snapped off the ends to make it small enough for the sweater. Not very attractive, to be sure. So I padded the hangar with polysester stuffing and crocheted around the stuffing and the hangar to prevent pulls (and to look less like a snapped off hangar....).


I decided I needed more than the normal white price tag, too. So I created a tag using the bird, the needle and the yarn on the pages of my Weebly blog. It was a quickie tag, but I intend to revamp it and include the addresses of my knitting blogs. It seems like a cool thing to do.


My last addition to the packaging is a picture of my friend, Lilley, modeling the outfit. I surmise the size is approximately for a six month old baby but I thought having a picture showing Lilley wearing the sweater and hat (not the booties, alas. Her feet are not baby proportioned ) would help indicate the size more clearly.


I pinned the hat and booties to the sweater , enclosed the whole shebang in a clear plastic bag, added the various tags on to the hangar with ribbon and voila... ready to go. I thought it looked professional enough in a hand-crafted kind of way to display for sale in my booth.   Now to see if it sells.. Keep your fingers crossed, please.