Overwhelmed by the crowds and sheer number of vendors at the season’s holiday markets? Those with a touch of craft fever should find some respite at the Shiny Fuzzy Muddy show, held Saturday and Sunday (December 13 and 14) at Heritage Hall: its carefully curated selection of artists tops out at 20.

The sale, founded by a group of artists back in 2003, puts quality first, and this year’s fresh selection is no different. There is unique jewellery by the likes of Kari Woo, Flight Path, Toodlebunny, and Caroline Miller Design, but noticeable for 2014 is the strong contingent of homewares.

We’re talking everything from Identity Tees and Home’s folky-funky screen-printed, vintage-Hudson’s-Bay-blanket pillows to Him Creations’ astonishingly cute felted ornaments. (Think bunnies, robots, bears, and unidentifiable anime-meets-forest creatures.) Here are a few of the show’s other highlights for the person who loves artful, one-of-a-kind décor for their digs.

Cathy Terepocki Ceramics

Cathy Terepocki somehow manages to take the warm nostalgia you have for those macramé pots your mom or grandma used to hang around the house and turn it into something coolly contemporary.

Trained at the Alberta College of Art and Design, she’s shown her work here and abroad and seen her ceramics featured in many a glossy magazine. Her pieces at the show include small hanging planters (perfect for succulents) with rough cords, vintage and handmade clay beads, and geometric-modern designs like chevrons in retro brights like yellow, turquoise, and rusty orange (about $46 to $74).

“I’m using pretty new printing techniques to get the graphic line,” she explains. “I like the idea that the clay is that rough ’70s clay but then adding that contemporary printing technique. That speckly clay was huge in the ’70s and it was used on those folksy pieces.”

Look for air-plant versions of the hangers as well, along with a new line of small pitchers—the kind that hold syrups, creams, and sauces—that develop her colours and retro-inspired patterns even more.

Winterluxe

Janna Hurtzig fashions luxe, discarded cashmere sweaters and hats into cozy cushions and blankets (as well as gorgeous cowls, berets, fingerless gloves, and mittens). Think of it as high-end extravagance without the environmental impact (or ridiculous cost).

This year, the inspired seamstress has been playing with colour and sewing techniques, creating chevrons, stripes, and triangle patterns out of different hues of cashmere. Some of her new cushions ($120) come in bright, contemporary combinations of pinks, purples, whites, and creams; a more neutral line features tans, greys, and black and white.

It’s quiltlike squares of fabric she uses for her impossibly cozy blankets (about $600), an item, like the pillows, you can have custom-made from your own (or someone else’s) recycled vintage cashmeres. (Hurtzig takes $10 per sweater off the price.) For a smaller gift, consider one of her adorable water-bottle sweater covers ($38).

“I’ll sit with it on my lap while I’m at a sale or sitting at the computer, and a lot of people take them camping,” Hurtzig says. (If you miss Shiny Fuzzy, an event she helped found, Hurtzig is offering last-minute shoppers an open-studio event from December 18 to 21 at her Railtown digs, 208–339 Railway Street.)

Luprints

The West Coast wilderness meets Scandinavian design in the printed homewares of designer Ulla Clark. Geometrics, snowshoes, antlered deer, owls, and leaves repeat across her vividly hued, eco-friendly, nontoxic birchwood trays and natural linen-cotton tea towels and placemats.

The mix comes from the fact Clark lives surrounded by the nature of the Pemberton Valley but traces her mother’s heritage back to Sweden. “Honestly, my mother keeps digging up these old books,” she says over the line from her home. “She gave me this Swedish mushrooms cookbook and someone had hand-drawn all of the mushrooms, and I said I have to do that. But I added the poison ones,” she says mischievously of the cheery but dangerous white-polka-dots-on-red fly agaric she’s put in her black-red-and-white Forest and Fungi print.

Clark’s inspirations come from elsewhere as well: her Fox and Finch pattern drew on a vintage quilt. As retro-spiffy as the designs are, they’re all meant to be put to everyday use. “No one believes they’re dishwasher-safe, but they are,” Clark says of her popular little trays. “Every morning I use them for my coffee and toast.”

She’s wrapped up special sets of those trays with matching tea towels for $50 for the sale; and check out the special-edition Vancouver tea towel, with its stylized landmarks and trees, for $20.