I entered 4 items in this year’s Harvest Home Fair.
The Crosshatch socks didn’t win anything.
The Bevel socks won an honorable mention.
The Alphabet Blanket won second prize.
And finally, the Sanquhar Gloves won first prize…AND Best of Show!
The Best of Show award is given across all of the needlework categories (Crochet, Knitting, Embroidery, Needlepoint, Quilts, Machine sewing, Dolls, and Miscellaneous). Usually it’s a quilt that wins the Best of Show, so I didn’t even think there was any chance for that! What a surprise!
The lady who appears to be in charge of the needlework part of the exhibits came over to talk to me when I picked up my things. She told me I have no competition, my work is always so nice (I guess in the 4 years I’ve been entering, they’ve remembered my name now!). Basically, that I’m just competing against myself when I enter multiple items.
I also asked about why they don’t have more categories. She said that they used to, but it got so that there were so few entries in each category, that they were just paying out money to everyone, and they just couldn’t afford it anymore. So, now there’s just the 2 categories for knitting (baby garment or blanket, and then anything else).
So, I finally broke the “lace” trend. Colorwork beats lace.
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