{"id":23042,"date":"2026-10-23T21:45:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T20:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=23042"},"modified":"2026-10-28T21:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:54:24","slug":"daily_4248_-_crafts_fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/10\/23\/daily_4248_-_crafts_fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4248 &#8211; crafts fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4248_fair_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The annual crafts fair at \u00c4lvsj\u00f6 &#8211; a giant hall full of vendors of fabric, yarn, notions, other crafts materials, and things that might in general appeal to craftsy people.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t sure if I was going to go. On the weekend it&#8217;s too crowded. Is it worth taking half a day off work? I don&#8217;t need any yarn or fabric right now, and speculative buying doesn&#8217;t work out for me. Then I decided to approach it more like a museum visit &#8211; a couple of hours of looking at (and touching!) pretty hand-made objects.<\/p>\n<p>I did also have a short list of things I could buy: sock yarn in useful colours (bought 1), fabric for linen trousers (nothing that was worth buying), fabric for a tote bag (yes), fabric scraps (yes) and clearance yarn (no).<\/p>\n<p>Mostly, though, I came home with dozens of photos that I&#8217;m storing in my inspiration folder.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4248_fair.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual crafts fair at \u00c4lvsj\u00f6 &#8211; a giant hall full of vendors of fabric, yarn, notions, other crafts materials, and things that might in general appeal to craftsy people. I wasn&#8217;t sure if I was going to go. On the weekend it&#8217;s too crowded. Is it worth taking half a day off work? I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23044,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23042\/revisions\/23044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}