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It’s all about sticking to your knitting at the Crafters At Latitude 46 market this weekend.
Everything crafty is celebrated at the event, which has been held twice a year in Invercargill for the past decade.
Committee member Wendy Butler said they offered two quite distinct markets each year – the first one focused on birthdays and Mothers’ day, while the one later in the year was more geared towards Christmas.
“We have a huge variety of different things. People are going back to basics and recycling is a big thing,” she said.
Crafters make a wide variety of items including clothing and bags out of things such as good blanket woollen blankets, and you can be assured everything is very personalised.
“That’s the good thing about a craft market, it’s very unlikely you can buy two things that are exactly the same.”
The committee runs between 65 and 70 stalls each year at Onslow Street and while this wasn’t a market focusing on food, there would be one business offering good old fashioned baking.
Wendy said she just loves the atmosphere of a craft market, and she and her mother have been producing their own knitting and crocheting for 45 years.
One lady artist comes along with her easel and paint and quietly works away in the corner, and many of the crafters are multi-talented and can produce different things each time.
“We have stallholders that have been doing since the beginning and they become like family.”
The market has supported the Cancer Society and the Westpac Rescue Helicopter in the past – this year proceeds will go towards Hospice Southland.
The market is on 10am to 4pm both days.
For more information follow the Crafters at Latitude 46 Facebook page