"Craft" fair

On Saturday I went to a sewing and craft fair with my mother. She was looking to expand her stash of quilt materials and I was having a look see for some ribbons for tassles.

Mostly it's scrap booking .... acres and acres of scrap booking. I do not understand scrap booking. Is it a photo album? Is it a diary? What's with all the stickers? Don't get me wrong, I found my old sticker collection (scratch and sniff's do not age well) and it was huge, I have nothing against stickers but why put them in a book on top of other pieces of paper? I just do not understand the appeal.

Of course I have my share of totally useless hobbies (see large cross stich works which take 12 months to complete) so should not throw stones.

However despite the scrapbook theme to the day I did succeed in getting some tapestry to canvas to restore the pipetable backing. Or rather create a new backing and then start to recreate the old one. The pipetable is a family hierloom and probably a bit over 100yrs old (could be as old as 150yrs) and the back is a hand embroidered (by my mum's paternal grandmother) Norwegian style motif. It's completely faded now, and parts of it are rotting (or just disintegrating) - the back however is still in reasonable shape so I hope to be able to recreate the pattern and colours from that. Despite searching the interweb I have not found much in the way of information on traditional Noggi embroidery... of course I haven't.

In the meantime however I will start work on a new backing - I have found two motifs from the arts and crafts movement that will look ok I think. So at Christmas I will be measuring up and starting work.

Is it a bad sign that the lady at the canvas stall called me very brave? Or is she just lacking in vision?