Monday, August 22, 2022

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
 
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AWARDED:  RED - SECOND PLACE 

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

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AWARDED:  RED - SECOND PLACE

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"The Shepherd's Bush Stocking"

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AWARDED: RED - SECOND PLACE

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and my last entry:
"Heirloom Wedding Whitework Sampler" by Stoney Creek

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AWARDED: HONORABLE MENTION - TRICOLOR RIBBON

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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:
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Here is my ribbon haul for 2022 on the same four entries at both County and State Fair:
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and here is my box o' ribbons from the last 17 years of entering my pieces in my county and now my State Fairs.
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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 



9 comments:

  1. we don't have any fairs around here to enter. Lucky you Congrats on all your ribbons. Your stitching should have gotten first place as far as I am concerned. big hugs Lynda Ruth

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  2. Congratulations on your ribbons!! Do you know about how many entries there were at the state fair? I ask because I'd like to compare to my own state fair. Thanks!

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    1. I would say total in all of the needlework classes 100-125 entries.

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  3. All are amazing entries, Vonna! Kudos!

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  4. If your work only took 2nd place, I wonder what the 1st place ones look like. From here, you should have all blue ribbons.

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  5. Well done on your State Fair entries and your ribbons, Vonna! I have never been to Virginia's State Fair (probably a holdover from my working days -- it was always in September). What kind of Nativity are you thinking about stitching?

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  6. Congratulations on all of your beautiful ribbons. It's a great feeling knowing that all your hard work is appreciated by all.

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  7. Congratulations, Vonna! Well deserved! Please show us your Nativity when you start working on it.

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  8. My favorite part of state fairs were all the exhibits. When I was in high school our art teacher used to encourage us to enter our work. I won 2nd place for an abstract wood thing I made. I wish I had a picture of it. I don't get to the State fairs anymore. Maybe I need to change that. Your work is amazing.

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