One of the biggest challenges of selling crochet at a craft fair is standing out. Market make patterns are shared and reused by every artist at every market.There is absolutely nothing wrong with these adorable patterns, of course, but they do present a big problem for artists - how do you stand out in a sea of chickens and frogs?

Are you straight, but want to sell at a Pride Market? Are you a small business, and not a big corporation trying to capitalize on queer people for one month while ignoring us every other month? Well then, this is the post for you!

Holiday markets are a different beast from markets at other times of the year for one massive reason: presents.

Welcome to our first Market Mayhem! This series seeks to analyze each market we attend and extract all the messy lessons we learned.