Craft fair results and Mario - Day 3

Saturday I had a craft fair all day. It was put on by a booster club for a local junior high cheerleader team. It was a pretty small craft fair. There were only about 25 booths available. The weather wasn't bad outside (this was an indoor fair),  just a bit windy, but there was practically nobody that showed up to shop. To be honest, I believe that all my sales were to other vendors.
At least I broke even, even if I didn't make any money.

I took Mario with me to have to work on in slower times. I only worked on him a short bit, though. I wanted to give my booth my full attention. Because of this, I decided to work on Mario on Sunday this weekend, instead.

I only did blue this weekend, but you can see his foot on the right, at least! I love seeing this one come together. It has been a blast!

This is where I left off last week:

Here is where I am now:

Mario - Day 2

I devoted all of my crafty time this past Saturday to Mario, since I totally forgot about him last weekend. I decided not to make up that week, though, and just stitch on him the one day this weekend.

Here is where I was when I started, after 1 day:

Here is where I am after the second day:

I had just gotten started on some of the blue sky when it was time to go to bed. I do have everything done except the sky and ground, now, though.

Starting to gear up for a convention

I have been wanting to have a booth in a convention for over a year now, but fate keeps conspiring against me!
The first one I wanted to attend was cancelled after having financial issues with the previous one. I totally understand why. There was a tornado, which took out power and blocked roads, so the entire first day ended up getting cancelled. Since it was a small con, it was such a hard blow, that they have yet to recover.
The other one I have been interested in is bigger. I have been hesitant to go to this one, due to the size, but I'm going to try it this year. As far as fan conventions go, this one is still on the small side (nowhere near as big as Comic Con or other like it). It does bring in a lot of people locally, though. I have put in a submission, and I really hope I am able to get a booth. I'm just playing the waiting game.

In the mean time, I am going to be making more items to have in my booth if I do get accepted. Including this convention, I have 7 events that I am wanting to attend between now and June! I will be keeping myself busy! My first craft fair for the year is in about 2 weeks.

Here are a few things that I have made to get things started!

I was so busy making chainmail, that I totally forgot about stitching on my Saturday Mario piece this week! I'll have to give it some extra love next weekend. Maybe both Saturday and Sunday to make up for it.

Here is a new item that I haven't made before, but I absolutely love them! They came out so awesome, and I am making several more in different colors.

FFO SAL

Rachel over at Ten Hour Stitcher has started an FFO SAL. To enter, all you need to do is FFO one of your projects each month. This will help everyone get motivated to finally finish up projects, rather than have them accumulate and gather dust in a drawer somewhere.

About two and a half years ago, I finished this project, and it has been languishing away in a drawer, waiting to be seen by the world.
I went to Hobby Lobby, and picked up a cute little frame for half off, and framed it myself. This is my second item I have ever framed, and I think it came out pretty good!

Luminaro page 1 complete!

I have finally finished page 1 of Luminaro! There was quite a bit of confetti near the bottom part of the page where all the different colors are. That the top part of the page with the dark areas, though, it went pretty quickly since most of it was only one color.

Here is where I was on my last update:

Here is my page finish!

This page seemed to fly by quickly!
I used the Random Picker app to choose the next project that I work on. Wouldn't you know it? It actually chose Luminaro. LOL! So, I have started page 2, now.

Saturday SAL - Mario

I started my Saturday SAL this weekend and had a new start. I finally got to start working on Mario this past weekend.
Since it was a new start, there is no before pictures, but here is how far I got in the one day of stitching.

This Saturday SAL may end up being just me stitching by myself on Saturdays, but I'm going to stick with it, if I can. It gives me something else to work on and break up the time spent on one project.
I have already chosen my next Saturday SAL project once Mario is completed, too. I'm going to go ahead and post it now in the hopes that if someone already has started this one or if they are wanting to start this one, there is plenty of time to either dig out the WIP or go out and get the pattern.

My next Saturday SAL project will be Sleepy Hollow by Glendon Place. Here is a reminder of what it looks like (click on the picture to get a zoomed in look):

Crochet Pattern - Troll face

Here is a new free filet crochet pattern! I know, I know. I'm a bit late on this one. I just forgot about them. Sorry!
The great thing about these patterns, is that you could easily use them to cross stitch the design, too!

This is another one of the meme patterns I did along with the previous free pattern I posted, Philosoraptor. This one is the troll face!

Here is the pattern for it:

Troll Face

INSTRUCTIONS:
Starting at bottom of pattern chain 199. Chain 3 to turn which will count as first double crochet of
first row. Double crochet in 5th chain from hook. Double crochet in next 2 chains to complete bottom
right solid square of row 1. Continue following pattern for first row reading pattern right to left. After
completing first row, chain 3 to turn to start next row. Continue following pattern until all rows are
complete. At end of row 56 fasten off or add edging from pattern as shown.

MATERIALS (based on crochet cotton size):
Using Crochet Cotton no. 10: about 421 yds, steel crochet hook US size 7 or SIZE FOR GAUGE.

APPROXIMATE FINISHED SIZES:
Using Crochet Cotton size 10: width = 15.2 inches, height = 14.0 inches

GAUGE:
Using Crochet Cotton size 10: 10 squares = 2.3 inches, 10 rows = 2.5 inches