I made it to the fair yesterday, but by the time I got home I was just too tired to do much but go to bed. So the pictures had to wait until today.
This is what I came up with for a Christmas decoration. I didn’t expect it to win anything and it didn’t. I wanted to enter as much tatting as possible, and that I had time to make. It’s not quite what I planned to do, but it’s what got done. You can see the picture that won champion in the same class, Christmas decoration.
As you can see, my doily took third place. When it was shown at the Harvey County fair it was laying down, so the way I mounted it was fine. At the state fair they hung it on the wall and the center sagged a bit. I’ve learned a lesson for next year! Below my doily is a red, white and green doily. It’s hard to tell with it mounted that way, but it looked pretty good to me.
These are the entries that competed with my spider and web. This was Holiday decoration, and you could enter one per holiday. It looks like all holidays compete against each other, not each holiday by itself.
And, yes, it got a blue ribbon! I was pleasantly surprised. I knew it would be competing against a variety of media, and didn’t know if the judges would like the tatting or not.
Next week I’ll show some of the other tatting that was entered.
“If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything.”
Win Borden
Congratulations
Margaret
Congratulations! I'm delighted that you received a Blue Ribbon for the spider web! I'm glad they recognized the creativity of it!
I'm curious about the 1st and 2nd doily winners, but you certainly represented tatting very well at the State level! It's a very beautiful and unique tatted doily!
You never know how items will be displayed. It was a good idea to mount the doily on a dark background so the beauty of it could be appreciated, either displayed flat or vertically, although it's one more step before entering! The 'sagging' is really not noticeable!
Thanks for posting the photos – AND for having tatting 'out there' to be seen! It's a lot of work to enter things at a Fair!
Congratulations! Wonderful to see so much of your work displayed at the fair.