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[quote=Anonymous]There are so many now! I’m a vendor who started this year and I’ve been to a few.

By far the best one was the MONA mom’s sip and share last week in Arlington. It’s not formally juried for handcrafted items, but it’s very bougie with a great selection. Today I went to one at the Line hotel in Adams Morgan. Great space, they needed more vendors though, it took me 10 min to walk through it.

Here’s some more options (sorry I’m not going to do links but you can google).

Next weekend there is one hosted by District Motherhued, which is the largest black community holiday market in the area I think. It might have some different things. It’s at Metrobar DC in NE.

Dec 7/8 there are a lot.  The City of Falls Church has one. And Washington Liberty and the McLean craft show are that weekend. They are juried, which means they are picky about hand crafted items only.  I’ll be at a DC venue in DuPont called Ipade on the 7th. It’s  a black owned event space so will likely be a lot of black vendors.  I’m excited bc I’ve heard the space itself is quite lovely. On yhe 8th I’ll be at St Rita’s Saint Nicholas market in Alexandria. No idea if it’s any good.  I think the Swedish embassy has one on Dec 7 as well which I imagine is great simply due to the space.

The Crossing Clarendon has one on the 7/8 as well.

The Heurich has an entry fee but looks pretty awesome- it is curated to be artisan only and the venue looks very old European.  I think it starts December 8 and goes for a week or so.

Dec 14/15 City of Fairfax has its market, as well as McLean HS and Wakefield HS on the 14th. Wakefield is supposedly the same organizers as Washington Liberty but it’s a much less established market. I’ll be there. Herndon has one on the 14th which is supposed to be quite good.

Alexandria old Town has several so google those.

Theres also a HUGE one at the Dulles Expi Center coming up that is very strictly curated, I think that would be cool, you’ll have to google the date.

The thing about markets and vendors is that vendors have to pay to attend them and we have to be selective.  My rule is that if there is a lot of other stuff going on like kid stuff, I avoid it bc I know people are there to entertain their kids with shopping as an adjacent activity. I think markets like McLean and Wash/Liberty will be good bc they are shopping focused and not kid focused and they attract good vendors.  For a good mix of shopping/kid I think Herndon will be pretty good. Ultimately though, there’s only so much one can create by hand. It will be soaps, candles, jewelry, chocolates, handbags, etc.  I saw one lady doing polymer clay earrings at MONA and they were so cute. Haven’t seen anyone selling their crochet yet surprisingly.

For future reference there’s one at the world bank dealer in November. Google MMEG market and you can find their instagram.

I’ve heard nothing but bad things about the two DC ones.  Hope you get to explore some of others!

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