Home From the Fair ------

-----------and here's the best shot of all:

Here’s what I got at the county fair:

1)                   Graceful Garden Quilt – blue ribbon, Best in County, State Fair Choice 

2)                   Arrow-Crown Apron – blue ribbon

3)                   Scissors Case – blue ribbon

4)                   Pincushion – red ribbon (second place)

5)                   Needlekeep – blue ribbon

6)                   Cathedral Windows Pillow – blue ribbon, Country Piecemakers Quilt Guild Award, Best Quilted Non-Quilt item

7)                   Kitties Mug Rug – blue ribbon

8)                   World Map Placemat – blue ribbon

9)                   Braided Star Table Topper – blue ribbon

10)              Hannah’s Doily – blue ribbon

Now I have to figure out how to enter stuff in the State Fair, find out when it is, etc.  I’ll have special papers for the quilt; as it’s won Best in County, it will be in a special division.  Oh, the rigors of fame! 

<guffaws from the peanut gallery>

Pictures from the fair:

Lionhead Bunny

Giant French Lop Rabbit

French Lop

The Stables

Is ewe singin' lullabies to you's lambie?

Llama

World Globe placemat I made for Nathanael

Kitty mug rug I made for Janice

Braided Star table topper for John H. & Lura Kay.

Too bad they had to have most of the items all folded up.

Doily Hannah made for me

Scissors case and needlekeep I made for Hannah.

Apron I made for Norma.  They folded it pretty side in!  :-\

Fairy garden

The Exhibit Hall

Mini Apple Rose Pie

Fairy Garden

Cathedral Windows pillow I made for Norma.  Blue ribbon, Country Piecemakers Quilt Guild Award, Best Quilted non-quilt item.

Lego house made by Sean Anderson.  Put anything other than a quarter in the slot; it doesn't recognize it.  A quarter, however, makes it open and yield an Oreo cookie!

The lavender ruffles are in the skirt part of a dress made by my friend Leanne, for which she got a Grand Champion ribbon.

Graceful Garden quilt I made for Andrew and Hester.  Grand Champion ribbon -- Best of County, State Fair Choice.

Biscornu pincushion I made for Hannah.  Probably got a red ribbon because it was labeled 'bean bag'.  :-D  

Online quilting friend Carol -- first time we've met.

Grand Champion winners.  5th in line, Sean Anderson.  I am second from the right; Leanne Brinkman (Sean's grandmother) is on the right.

See ribbons from the fair here:  Fair Ribbons