When I lived in Missouri my speciality was soft sculpture items...dolls, sheep, pumpkins,chickens etc. Participated in many shops and shows. Really loved being in a shop in St. Charles, Mo because it was a tourist area and I know some of my little dolls have made it to Ireland, and Germany because they were small enough to fit in a suitcase and the shop owners would tell me where my dolls were going. But those people with sticky dirty hands at craft shows would make me cringe when they turned an item over to inspect how it was made and then set it back down and walk away. Yes, I wanted to say something to them but I simply removed the item to under the table and tried to clean it up again at home. Now I simply quilt.