Local artists add colour to Battlefords HandCraft Fest
The Saskatchewan Handcraft festival is only a day away and the majority of vendors from across the province are preparing for a busy weekend.
But local artisans, some of whom have been a part of the annual festival for 20 years, are also excited to begin the three-day event, kicking off Friday, June 15.
For local seamstress, Anna Marie Waldbillig of Designs by Ann-Marie, her passion to tailor items of what she calls wearable art came out of the necessity to provide for her family in tough economic times.
“Most of it was necessity to begin with because you didn’t have the money to buy clothes and so you made them,” Waldbillig said.