Hipsters, families and people carrying parasols converged at the 2nd annual Renegade Craft Fair over the weekend. As the fair’s website puts it, Renegade is a “large-scale DIY event featuring hundreds of independent artists and their unique handmade items.” True that. We saw displays of everything from greeting cards, jewelry, clothes and soaps to cupcakes made of felt, reusable sandwich and snack bags, jalapeño-ginger jam and hand-sewn dolls.

And we spent 2 1/2 hours browsing the myriad of booths at our leisure, along with the the sweaty parasol-carriers, crying babies, pets on leashes and a woman who spent 20 minutes looking at a hand-stitched mushroom doll-thing and wouldn’t move out of the way.

As the mostly organic, handmade items were well, handmade (complete with signs telling us to ask sellers about their Etsy site), we expected to pay a little more. But we found $5 rings mixed with $90 necklaces — relatively good deals amid the larger retail landscape.

Since the fair was this weekend only (though you can catch it in San Francisco later this month followed by Chicago in September), we sourced our favorite sellers so you can experience the made-from-scratch goodness without ever leaving home. Or dealing with those maddening mushroom lurkers.

Our vendor picks:

Le Petit Elefant: Toys, artwork and crafts for kids
Chikabird/randL: Clothes, accessories, wallets, etc.
Graze Organic: Reusable sandwich and snack bags, organic cloth napkins
Little Bit: Hand-sewn dinos, wallets, etc.
Ticings: Decorative Edible icing sheets
Sycamore Street Press: Letterpress goods
Erica Weiner Jewelry: Jewelry and reworked vintage jewelry
Lemon Bird: Handmade seasonal gourmet jams
Beards: What it sounds like

Check out renegadecraft.com for more details.  — Michelle Juergen