Montpelier Needle Art 2010 Results

Congrats and "way to go" to all of you. Even though it was entered without your knowledge, Donna!! I would dearly love, just once on my lifetime, to go to a really good show!!

Gillian

Thanks for the update. Congratulations to both of you on your awards.

Lucille

Donna --

THANK YOU for posting the results! Two more weeks of wondering would have killed me! (I wasn't planning to go until the closing day...save on the admission ticket, since I paid to enter the piece instead!) (And thanks again to members who encouraged me to enter it!)

And congrats on your award. I saw such a piece when I was entering my piece, being entered by the framer. Was that yours?

sue

Well done Sue and Donna are you going to put the gingko leaf triptych up on rctnp ? I would love to see that.

WooHoo! Congrats...must be a *great* feeling at such a big show!

Joan

I'll have to see if Sara Leigh has a good photo of it. I'm happy that she refrained from calling it "It Is What It Is" which is how we came to refer to this project. LOL

Donna in Virginia

Wow's and congrats all the way around. Any way to see any of these?

Cheryl

Not that I am aware of, Cheryl.

Donna in Virginia

Congrats, Sue. John Kazmeier seems to always be the one with big ribbons in the samplers - he's a fabulous stitcher. Montpelier didn't give you free entry ticket as someone who was showing? I'm surprised - most of the shows provide a free admission if you've entered a piece - maybe you could ask.

I think it's the piece that they also entered at Woodlawn this year.

Ellice

Ellice,

Montpelier Needlearts keeps a list of exhibitor names at the front door. Exhibitors can come and see the show as many times as they want for free. There is no ticket since it is not a "one time deal" which is practiced at Woodlawn.

The person who organizes the show is a stitcher and designer herself and she has made the show Very stitcher friendly. Panels were bought so that people can see the needlework up close. The only thing the show does not have are independently locked cases, therefore those items requiring a case are put in the archeology artifacts case of Montpelier mansion.

I hope people will submit more to this show. Complaints people often bring up about Woodlawn (e.g. cost to enter pieces, cost to see the show, ability to look at items up close) are eliminated here.

I submit entries to both shows because I want to support such items continuing in my area.

And if I get a ribbon (which I did this time at Montpelier!), it is always a nice bonus.

I don't think there is any show like Montpelier/Woodlawn near me. I would love to be able to see more of what other people do than I currently can.

Cheryl

Tara -

Congrats on the ribbon!

I didn't know about the free entry for exhibitors...it never dawned on me to ask! Next time I'll know.

ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT MONTPELIER For anyone who hasn't heard...next year the Needlearts show will be the entire month of November (2011), and the special theme is "Along the Chesapeake Bay."

Now everyone can plan accordingly!

cheers, Sue

Cheryl,

You can always come down here. Woodlawn runs the entire month of March.

Donna in Virginia