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You must have had a great day, sounds wonderful, with a good start of an omelet created by your husband. How did you do in the competition, when was the judgine done.

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Els

Els,

The Stock Show and Rodeo begins on Thursday, Feb. 16th, and everything opens at that time to the public. That will be the first time I will be able to see how I did in the competition unless the newspaper publishes the results earlier. I've never been exactly certain when they judge the entries, but I know they will be setting up everything between now and Thursday. It runs until Feb. 25th.

Last year I entered the English band sampler I did in an individual correspondence course through Embroiderers Guild of America. It won a 1st place ribbon but did not win "best of show". The piece that won best of show was a patriotic cross stitch and was beautiful but all done in cross stitches when my band sampler contains many different stitches and techniques. I think my DH was more upset than I was! I also entered two small cross stitched pictures (the sun and the moon) stitched over one thread of linen. They received "honorable mention" ribbons.

Then in 1999 I entered a sweatshirt with a cross stitched Christmas angel on it...that won a 1st place. And the same year I entered two other cross stitched pictures and one of them won a third place ribbon. That was my first year to enter anything in a competition and the first year we lived here in San Angelo, so I really did not know how elaborate the entries would be.

Well, that was more than you wanted to know, I'm sure, but I got talkative!

BonnieBlue

The times I have entered the local fair craft shows, have always been fun. Nice to bring a ribbon home, certainly for a city slicker like I am....LOL Hope you get another rbibon, but just being part of it all is fun as well, at least that is what I found.

When I was doing a warp painting session wiht a group of guild members, at our house, we used Otto's workshop table. Otto at that time was reproducing a beautiful old Dutch wind mill. It was a saw mill from the

16 or 17 hundreds. He made it a working model to scale. One of the ladies who has lived in the Cowichan valley since birth, and attended many of the Fall faires, insisted that Otto enter the mill at the Fair. He got many ribbons, but the best thing was, that Otto stood and talked to everyone about the history of this mill. We sort of felt very much part of our community, the Dutch community, but most of all the Cowichan valley community, both having a rich history in the lumber industry.

Els

Hey, good for Otto!

Higs, Katherine