Patrons and Vendors came to the Chapel Lawn on Saturday, April 25th to participate in the Spotted Cow Music Festival which sported games, food trucks, and live music.
This year featured a large variety of vendors selling crocheted items, printed illustrations, thrifted clothes, and even custom-made jewelry.
Hattie Peterman, the person behind Hattie the Bug Catcher, and a first-time Spotted Cow vendor said, “Well, you have to make sure that you have, like, all of your products ready in time. Being a senior, I had a lot of stuff to do, and then all of a sudden I was doing Spotted Cow, and I was like, ‘oh shoot, I gotta compile everything order different places.’”
Peterman sells illustrated merchandise from stickers to posters and everything in between.
“I usually draw on procreate, and then I just have to make sure that all of those images are the right resolution. And, yeah, there’s, there’s various like online companies where all I have to do is drop the image, like, onto the product, and then they work with it, like in a mock up and such to get it printed,” Peterman said.
Ella Wortley, the person behind Ella Gail Creations, a returning vendor, said, “I spend a lot of time in my evenings just crocheting and stuffing animals, and then thinking about how I want their setup to be, and figuring out what colors I want things to be.”
After the vendors set up their stands, patrons flooded the chapel lawn as the event commenced.
“The main thing I’ve noticed is just that the turnout has gotten a lot nicer, and that we’ve had more and more vendors each year with a new variety of stuff, which has been really cool to see,” said Jonathon New, an alumni who attended the event several times before.
Jonathon said that the variety and craftsmanship of the vendors as well as the other activities at the event impressed him.
Izzy Yoder, a freshman at IWU, said “I love all the stalls, especially the crochet stuff. I love like, seeing people, like, create a bunch of stuff and then sell them.”
Yoder said she was encouraged to attend Spotted Cow by several of her upperclassmen friends.
“All my upperclassmen were like, ‘You need to go. It’s super fun time.’ So, I’m glad I listened to them,” Yoder said.
