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Old October 5th 17, 05:51 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.needlework
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On Wednesday, October 4, 2017 at 10:28:43 AM UTC-5, Joan Erickson wrote:

Yeah, ours has really gone downhill, too. With a 1st prize of $3,
though, it's not much of an incentive when it costs $5 to get into the fair!


Yeah, that's the thing. It cost $25 to enter projects in our fair, but the winner only gets $3. In years before they judged the pieces so harshly (with a frickin' page of criticisms for even the winners) people got too scared to enter. And now no one enters. Given this I do understand why no one wants to participate, but the downside is that needlearts are being lost. Last year I saw two quilts entered and that was it for the entire fiber art division!

Joan, I haven't posted a pic yet, but I just got that red hardanger heart framed and that's one of the pieces I'm going to enter in the fair next summer. It turned out fabulous, but there is one tiny and obvious (to me) mistake in it when I did the eyelets. I decided to let it go and left it in there because no one else would even notice, but I bet the judges will rip me a new one for the error.

Speaking of cool patterns, one of the ones I picked up on Thursday was a
set of the fractal bookmarks. I've drooled over those fractals since
they first came out!


I'd never seen those so I looked them up...pretty cool! They're almost like mini HAEDs (Heaven and Earth Designs, full coverage projects). I'm not a HEAD girl myself, but the bookmarks would be manageable.

On a side note: I just got a Lowery floor stand from Amazon.com and have been loving it...I'm still stitching away on A Wicked Plant, Maple Leaf, and Bird On A Nest (which I probably won't finish before death, because canvas work hurts my hands). What is everyone else working on?


Lowery Workstand: https://www.amazon.com/Lowery-Workst...s=lowery+stand

A Wicked Plant: http://www.123stitch.com/item/Barbar...-Pattern/C8809

Maple Leaf, which I'm doing in varigated silkes and a hand dyed fabric: http://www.123stitch.com/item/Alessa...-Pattern/H5575

Bird On A Nest: http://www.notyourgrandmothersneedle...lown-home.html


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