GrandmaW: State Fair

Thursday was another fabulous day - although if you looked at the weather for that day you would think we should have had a bad day. It rained and rained most of the day but we planned for a day of rain and took movies and spent the afternoon just being lazy in the camper, watching movies and of course I knitted. It was a nice afternoon off. The morning was spent at the Domestic Art's building. It was so great to spend so long just walking around looking at the displays. Usually we go to the fair for a day so there isn't time to study the projects but this time there was plenty of time. In the past I have won two blue ribbons for cross stitch and one project also won best of show. My goal is to also win a ribbon for crochet and one for knitting so I took my time looking at those projects. I am thinking I might be able to get a ribbon for a crochet project but the knitting projects with ribbons were really amazing. I doubt I could match the talents of the knitters that entered this year.

The quilts always amaze me - the small fall quilt that won ribbons was so beautiful and was so much work. It was hand quilted and the quilting designs were just darling - little ghosts, spiders, pumpkins and the stitches were perfect. Some of the large quilts confused me - there was one that won a blue ribbon and the blocks were not even and the points were not even close to perfect. I made a quilt many years ago and if I my blocks had turned out like that, I would have resewed them and certainly wouldn't have entered it in the fair. I can't understand at all how it won a ribbon. Others were amazingly beautiful and didn't win anything. Of course there isn't room to display the whole quilt so some had pictures attached of the quilt spread out - I wish they did that for all of them.

I took so many pictures and it has been very difficult to decide which ones to put in the blog - I want to put them all in!