Turkey Tracks: October 15, 2017
Camden Juried Craft Shows
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I rounded a corner of a grouping of booths in the Camden Juried Craft Show a few weeks back. The booths spread out over the library amphitheater and on the green hill that overlooks our beautiful harbor. This booth was tucked into a grouping of booths in the amphitheater, and close-by were two other booths I really liked.
My dad used to make his own fly-fishing lures when I was a little thing. He grew up fly-fishing out west and tried to teach his three girls how to fly fish as well. We used to practice on the grass front lawn. My dad loved all sorts of fishing, and he married a woman whose family all loved fishing too. Family vacations–that was back when people could take month-long vacations–always included fishing. We fished lakes, swamp bream beds and bass holes, streams, rivers, and bays and oceans. If it was wet and had fish in it, we were all in.
So, these beautiful handcrafted lures made me catch my breath and long for an idyllic time long gone. John and I thought we would fish up here in Maine, but the fish are tainted by mercury or no longer exist in places where we would have looked for them. We soon gave up the fishing idea. People do fish the lakes and streams, but…
Heirloom Lures, handcrafted by Christopher Augustus, Seal Cove, Maine
heirloomlures.com
Kathleen Farnsworth, Searsmont, Maine
Sewing A Notion, sewinganotion@fairpoint.net
Kathleen makes beautiful handcrafted items: from fiber to buttons.
These little goodies are jewelry holders.
See? The colors are delicious!
There is a button story which you can read on her blog.
Look at this beautiful little bag.
As you all know, I love bags of all sizes and shapes, so I stood and admired these for quite some time.
Very high quality workmanship here.
Jennifer Butts, Brunswick, Maine
Scenic Fabric Collages, Maine Hill Studio, mainehillstudio.com
My pictures did not come out too well as my camera picked up reflections in the glass. Jennifer has a good gallery of her many beautiful products on her web site though. Take a look? There are some great gifts here.
I am awed by her beautiful work–these pictures are not cut from paper. She cuts fabric to make her collages. I can only think that she has tiny, tiny scissors to make such beautiful sharp edges.
Clever, clever artist here.
Louisa Enright's Blog 