Photo Review: KiP in Athens 2012

we love picnics, we do!
For the second year in a row we organised a picnic to celebrate the Knitting/Crocheting in Public Day (KiP Day) in Athens. We did it last year, and we wouldn't miss this year's!

 The place was the same, the Park of Freedom (near the Music House in Athens), same time, too, but almost different people! We had some regulars and some guest stars!

 Eleni, a member of our crochet team from last years, Artemis, a fellow crocheter and knitter, Dimi, also a member of our crochet club, Fotini, Eleana and Vicky who don't crochet but we love them equally, Panagiotis and Orestis (our brother and his amazing friend who both learned how to knit at last year's Kip) and finally unexpectedly Tasos arrived to surprise me and complete our company at this Kip!

We mostly crocheted, except Panagiotis who started knitting a cowl, Orestis, Fotini and Vicky learned how to make a chain, (basic crochet stitch). Artemis started a crocheted blouse with the bestest sand colored yarn, I was making some bows for our shop, Dimi was crocheting a gift and Panagiota was interrupting her work by blowing bubbles in the wind!

and we had some really good time! Vicky brought me the most amazing gift ever,  some purple alpaca yarn from Switzerland!! I was smitten! look at this amazing shade....
Still in search of a magnificent project for this yarn!

with a small delay, these are finally the photos that document what happened on the 16th of June 2012, to celebrate the international Knitting and Crocheting in Public day, by the Double Crochets!

so bye bye and thanks to everybody that showed up!
big kiss
Marietta and Panagiota

Double Crochets @ Past Tense

Did you miss us? We sure did! Time does fly, that's something we learned over the past weeks. One moment we were working like crazy getting ready for "Past Tense" , the vintage and crafts bazaar, next moment here we are, three weeks later, still recovering from it! Easter came, Marietta has some wonderful news (tba!), two close friends got married and ..omg its almost May!
  Today we want to share with you our experience from our first participation ever on a bazaar. But before that, we want to thank each and everyone who came by the bazaar to support us!! We were amazed by the wonderful turnout and we just want you to know that, we appreciate you! Also a big "thanks!" to our friends, they are super precious, and last but not least, we want to thank Les Broderies Anglaises for having us at this wonderful bazaar!

Dimi holding her Double Crochets' bows 

Panagiota crocheting while waiting time

smiley people! (Eirini, Dimi, Veronica, Manolis)

our aunt Maria (also a crocheter!) and our cousin Marietta!!

Eirini ,our favrourite person from the bazaar

Venia from Grandmama's Reloved

Iliana selling petticoats and marvellous dolls

Grandmama's Reloved and Debil Sade, back to back. 

Miss Cherry Pie

Swell Dame

Eirini and Mariangela

Bourbon Madmazel

GlazedSisters Sweetreats

and Double Crochets (again) 

    The experience was amazing and we learnt a lot of stuff almost by the moment we set our feet at the bazaar (a bit late though)! The night before, we were up late preparing the last details, and we didn't sleep well because of the anxiety! We have surely underestimate how much there was to do! Eirini (the girl, we had our shops back to back with) told us, that we were pretty well prepared for our first time, though.
  We were super happy and we were crocheting at the time we were waiting for someone to show up. We met a lot of new people and a lot of our friends came by and say hi . We enjoyed a lot this contact with "customers" and we also enjoyed being among the nicest crafters that we've met before. We are super proud of ourselves and our little shoppe! And a strange fact: the things we didn't expect to sell, were selling like freshly baked buns and the ones we thought that would be the best sellers, didn't sell much!

So that was it! we had a hell of a time, and we can't wait for our next adventure! See you next time!!
Double Crochets ♥