Showing Antiques

This past weekend, my show partner and I did an antiques show in Massachusetts. The trend in antiques in the past 3-4 years has been gently downward, so we weren't expecting much from sales at this show. However, we were pleasantly surprised to do a little better than we had done at the last two shows in this location. Not great, but better. However, the not-so-good news is that the show was smaller, only about half as many dealers as in previous shows, so we got a larger share of a smaller pot. I took a couple pictures of our space.

I spent some of the boring hours in the later afternoon knitting on my rose Kidsilk Haze lace scarf. A couple of ladies commented on how lovely it was (and I agree). It's a relatively easy Feather and Fan lace pattern, but the yarn is so thin and fuzzy that I find it hard to work with. I have to count the stitches about every four rows to make sure I still have 38, because it's so easy for me to knit two together or add one where it's not wanted. This is an older picture - I actually have about 3 feet done.

And now I'm off to work at the antiques show for the day, and I probably do a little knitting there when there are no customers needing help.