We Are Busy

I'm working away on Joan Thomasson's wizard but I don't have enough progress to show just yet. I pulled out all the purple robe stitches I'd done since I realized that area wouldn't look good with the blue over-robe area and tried again. I've also started stitching the wizard's trunk in tent stitches but I haven't gotten very far.

We went to the county fair briefly after work this week and my Autumn Leaves and goldfish pieces won blue ribbons. Sadly, I didn't notice any other NP submitted at all. There were lots of pieced large block quilts and crocheted afghans and a little XS and an embroidered flower piece from a kit won a special award. The Best in Show winner was machine embroidery but I never managed to find it in the shelves of pieces. The items are jumbled along rows. A larger framed piece that didn't win anything hides all but the top of my goldfish's head and my Autumn Leaves purse is in the far corner where it is in shadow. Sadly, most of the pieces are treated this way. The only things you can actually see are a few quilts that are hung on a clothes line. I guess I should be thrilled crafts still draw enough pieces that there's a good showing, even if the categories are based on 1960s-style stitching, the displays a disgrace and the judges don't have a clue what they are looking at. [Jane, please tell us how you really feel!]

I will take photos of the finished Autumn Leaves purse when the fair is over. I ran out of time to take them before I had to have it at the fair.

I'm thinking about how to finish the Gay Ann Rogers Challenge Ornament and I have an interesting idea I'll share later on once I try it.

Somehow while I was busy with all of the above, we passed the 600,000 page views mark and are approaching 602,000 pages viewed. That's a lot of needlepoint people!

Thanks for your support, Dear Readers.

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