Spring Market Vendor Profile: K V D Creations and Carey

 *** we say new artist since Carey is new to flock and gather handmade markets,

 but you will likely remember Kristin from our Winter Wonders market last December.

 

 

Hello!! We are Carey and Kristin, sister in laws that share a love for crafting and suporting local and handmade products. Kristin is a crocheter and knitter that has been designing her own work for 4 years now.  Kristin gets inspiration off her friends who will ask her to create an item for them that is unique.  She loves seeing people around Saskatoon wearing her designs. Carey has been sewing for 6 years and has experience selling her items in local galleries.  She is inspired by old items that can be taken apart and sewn into something new and unique.  You can find Carey at any local craft show and art show supporting her fellow  artists friends.  Together we will have a unique blend of items that are made as a hobby, purely to allow us to be part of such an awesome movement of offering local, handmade products in our great city of Saskatoon,  and being surrounded by amazing,talented artist and the even cooler people who are buying it.    Love K&C

Winter Wonders Artisan Profile: K V D Creations

My name is Kristin van den Driesen.  I have always been into one craft or another since I was young.  Whether it was making necklaces, painting, crochetting or knitting (which is two of my favorite things to do).  My grandmother and her craftiness of quilting, sewing, crochetting and knitting me always had me asking questions about what she was doing and how.  Her talent has always inspired me.  Over the years my grandmother has helped me with the quality of my crafting.  Soon, my friends would see my knitted items that I was wearing and say, "oh, I love that, can you make me one".  I then became very busy making things for my friends, and then following, their friends would ask for one and that became my small, casual, word of mouth business.  It then continued and became that friends of friends would be requesting a knitted cowl, or crochetted baby toque and I then gave my business a name, K VD Creations and became active on facebook. 

 

I love what I do, I love creating.  I have never been the cookie cutter type and I design all my own items, I have never used a pattern, I make up my own.  I have a passion for showing your individuality through what you wear and I am so honored when someone requests I make them one of my quarky chunky chains and then later I see them wearing it down Broadway in Saskatoon and it makes me smile. 

I often get bugged for what I do but I say, GO AHEAD, call me an old lady, I think crochetting is cool!!!

 

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