2022 Indiana State Fair...

~ Greetings and Warm Welcome to my blog ~

It's a new week and I started it by travelling up to Indianapolis to get my State Fair pieces back. Then I thought I'd wrap up fair season by giving my State Fair results.

This was the first year I have ever entered a State Fair competition. I have gone several years to the State Fair and have gazed upon the lovelies entered, but never participated....until last year - it was hotter than Hades - and I went in to just walk around and around the needlework show case to see and look again at all the entries. One of the supervisors of the Indiana Arts building came up to me and asked if I was showcasing work there? No, I said, but I am a needleworker and I've thought about submitting pieces. What are you waiting for, he exclaimed...you need to try next year. So....I did!

The State Fair awards differently than my local County Fair. So this is how it works:

Each Class is awarded: 

1st Place = Blue

2nd Place = Red

3rd Place = White

and if a piece is merited but did not place, one piece is awarded: 

Honorable Mention (essentially 4th place)

<so this means not all entries even get a ribbon>

Finally, one piece - out of all the entered under Needle Arts - is awarded 

"BEST IN SHOW"  and gets a large rosette. 

My entries and results follow:

"In His Hands" by Dimensions Gold Collection

 

AWARDED:  RED - SECOND PLACE 

judges comments:

"Brown Swiss Dairy" by Marilyn Leavitt Imblum - Told in a Garden

AWARDED:  RED - SECOND PLACE

judges comments:

"The Shepherd's Bush Stocking"

AWARDED: RED - SECOND PLACE

judges comments:

and my last entry:

"Heirloom Wedding Whitework Sampler" by Stoney Creek

AWARDED: HONORABLE MENTION - TRICOLOR RIBBON

judges comments:

So I am blessed and each of my entries received a ribbon! I am very proud of that fact. And I'm also proud that I was consistently the Second Best needleworker in the State of Indiana for 2022- I'll take it! 

Here is my Ribbon haul from the 2022 Indiana State Fair:

Here is my ribbon haul for 2022 on the same four entries at both County and State Fair:

and here is my box o' ribbons from the last 17 years of entering my pieces in my county and now my State Fairs.

in that box resides:

2 County Fair Red Ribbons

35 County Fair Blue Ribbons

28 County Fair Honor Purple Ribbons

6 County Fair Reserve Champion Pink Rosettes

17 County Fair Champion Purple Rosettes

2 County Fair Reserve Grand Champion Extra Large Rosettes

1 County Fair GRAND CHAMPION Extra Large Rosette

3 State Fair Second Place Red Ribbons

1 State Fair Honorable Mention Tri-Color Ribbon

Now I will close the lid on the box and put it on the shelf to get out next year to count, fondle and add to my ribbon collection in 2023, God willing I'm still around to do so. 

I LOVE TO ENTER MY WORK AND WIN RIBBONS! 

It is so satisfying to me :)

and best of all: it keeps stitching in the public eye and I seriously have become a better stitcher by participating and receiving commentary on my work.

Now....

I am off to dig through all my hoarded magazines....I have a hankering to stitch myself a nativity set for Christmas. I better get busy!

All my love to each of you....

Vonna xxxx