Know Your Locals: Made by Me Markets this summer offer handcrafted goods from local artists and artisans

Organized by Peterborough maker Cheryl Edwards, first summer market takes place outside the Silver Bean Cafe on June 22 and 23

By Megan Gallant -
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Local non-profit organization Wildlife Rescue Nests will have a vendor booth at the Made By Me Market on June 22, 2024 outside the Silver Bean Café in Peterborough's Millennium Park. All proceeds from earrings, bags, stuffies, phone slings, and other crocheted items will be covering the shipping costs and materials associated with providing no-cost crocheted nests to animal rehabilitators across the world. (Photo courtesy of Cheryl Edwards)
Local non-profit organization Wildlife Rescue Nests will have a vendor booth at the Made By Me Market on June 22, 2024 outside the Silver Bean Café in Peterborough's Millennium Park. All proceeds from earrings, bags, stuffies, phone slings, and other crocheted items will be covering the shipping costs and materials associated with providing no-cost crocheted nests to animal rehabilitators across the world. (Photo courtesy of Cheryl Edwards)

Since 2012, Peterborough maker Cheryl Edwards has been building a network of local creatives by hosting regular maker markets. Though they have been held under many different titles over the years, the “Made By Me Market” is perhaps the most aptly named, as it features no shortage of locally made goods from accessories to artwork, home décor, baked goods, and more.

To support as many artists and artisans as possible, Edwards has invited a different lineup of vendors for each day of the weekend markets she has scheduled over the summer and fall.

The first summer Made by Me Market will be held on the waterfront outside Peterborough’s Silver Bean Café in Millennium Park (130 King Street) between 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 22nd and Sunday, June 23rd. That market will feature 12 vendors selling paintings, all-natural dog treats, plushies, crochet jewellery, skin care products, and more.

While some of the vendors are for-profit businesses, others are non-profit organizations. Hearts 4 Joy sells hand-painted goods made by adults with intellectual disabilities. Wildlife Rescue Nests sells earrings, pins, phone slings, shoulder bags, and other crocheted items to fund the shipping and material costs of crocheted nests that the organization donates to wildlife rehabilitators across the globe.

"Shadows" (24" x 30", oil on gallery canvas) by Fred Sutherland. Sutherland is one of the artists in 201 Studio, a Peterborough-based volunteer-run artist collective that will have a vendor booth at the Made By Me Market on July 20 and 21, 2024 outside the Silver Bean Café in Peterborough's Millennium Park. (Photo courtesy of Cheryl Edwards)
“Shadows” (24″ x 30″, oil on gallery canvas) by Fred Sutherland. Sutherland is one of the artists in 201 Studio, a Peterborough-based volunteer-run artist collective that will have a vendor booth at the Made By Me Market on July 20 and 21, 2024 outside the Silver Bean Café in Peterborough’s Millennium Park. (Photo courtesy of Cheryl Edwards)

At all Made by Me Markets, visitors can enter a draw to win prizes donated by the vendors, and every visitor will receive a unique bookmark that clips onto books and is handmade by Edwards herself.

Additional Made by Me Markets at the Silver Bean Café this summer run from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on the weekends of July 20 and 21 and August 24 and 25. Fall markets will have even more vendors, and will be held at the Lions Club Community Centre (347 Burnham Street) on Saturday, September 7th and Saturday, November 30th from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Edwards is still seeking vendors for the August, September, and November markets. Interested vendors are invited to fill out an application online at madebymemarket.ca. To learn more about the vendors who will be participating in the first Made by Me Markets of the summer, visit the Facebook event pages for the June 22 and June 23 markets.

 

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