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2011 Festival Activities and Exhibits

More than just a craft show, Strange Folk Festival is an event that entertains, educates, nurtures, and strengthens the community. The Southern IL Artisan Guild will be hosting a variety of craft demos including weaving, spinning, wood carving and more. Kids will squeal with delight at the activities just for them -- a mushroom playhouse, giant sandbox, alpaca petting zoo, hands-on crafts with the Girl Scouts and Discovery School, handmade hula hoops to whirl, and performances by ...

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Knitters Please…Yarn Bomb Strange Folk!

You are cordially invited to yarn bomb the trees(or anything else) at Strange Folk Festival 2011! We are crowd-sourcing our decorations this year! The following are some front and center specimens, and their measurements. Knit/crochet sumin' pretteh! It should be a rectangle or some other shape that we can wrap around the tree and secure with zip ties(we provide those). You could also go to the park and scope something else you'd like to bomb - you ...

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