Hooray!!!

[pixiecrinkle]

Right after work automat76 and I ran up to the fair to see how I fared (ha!) in the knitting competion.

I'm more than happy!!!!


My Bad Penny sweater took nothing in the sweater category, but the things that placed were amazing.

My capelet took 3rd in the original design category:



And my afghan, my sister's wedding gift, took 1st place in knitted afghans, and Best in Show in the Afghan class!!! Woo-hoo!!!




There have been several of you on my friends list who've not fared so well at the county level. My advice: enter the state fair. Their judges seem to have a better idea of what they're doing, across craft categories. No fun fur scarves and badly executed things were winning here.

Comments

[pixiecrinkle.livejournal.com]

Thank you! You should definitely enter next year. I think our SNB should take over the fair! :-)

[futurecfo.livejournal.com]

I'm working on a challah cover right now that, if I like the way it turns out, will submit next year methinks.
http://www.knittinguniverse.com/downloads/challah.pdf

[pixiecrinkle.livejournal.com]

I think that would be a great entry -- they definitely seemed to display a bias toward colorwork and cables in some of the categories!

[futurecfo.livejournal.com]

As well they should! Cables are just plain pretty. And fair isle.
I am so dragging my mom to the fair to look at it!