Showing posts with label county fair. Show all posts
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Monday, October 13, 2025

Fair Exhibit Winners

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Late summer and early fall is the time for the county and state fairs, with all their exhibits, including needlework.  I've collected all the photos folks have posted of their exhibited pieces.  Congratulations to all and thanks for showing off how lovely your needlepoint can be.



Jenny's done some award winning Indiana-themed pieces for their state fair.

The judges couldn't find an errors in Mara's counted piece!

This looks rather plain in the photo, but trust me--Jane Zimmerman pieces are stunning in person!

Willie got a second place ribbon for her four seasonal cat designs.

Jeanne got two blue ribbons but only one was for needlepoint.

Susan got a blue ribbon for her Pippin collage.

Susan managed two blue ribbons at the Oregon state fair.

Linn brought home TWO ribbons!

This pink and white beauty got a blue ribbon.

Rachel got two ribbons (and shows off other stitchers' work) on her Instagram page.

Kelly's so proud of someone who got a blue ribbon for one of her designs!

Chronically Online Ndlpt won a blue ribbon for Mr. Frog.

Jennifer's mom won a blue ribbon AND a best of show at the Texas State Fair!

Brenda's Valentine set took second place.

Finally, Brenda reminds us that no matter who won ribbons, each piece is gorgeous and introduces people to the art of needlepoint, so keep up that great stitching!

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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Stitching at the County Fair

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The Colorado Stitcher has gone to the county fair and come home with ribbons.  Congratulations!
http://acoloradostitcher.blogspot.com/2012/08/jefferson-county-fair.html

I wrote about our county fair last year.  If you've never been to a small local fair, you should take a look at the photographs.   I entered and won my usual blue ribbon again this year, by the way.  It's pretty durn easy to win where no one else needlepoints in your county.  Sigh.  Still, I love seeing the bunnies and chickens and all the needleart.  This year the crocheted afghans made up the bulk of the needle arts entries but there were several cross stitched pictures and knitting, too.
http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com/2011/09/fun-at-county-fair.html

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Friday, September 9, 2011

Fun at the County Fair

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The biggest event of the year in my little rural area is the county fair.  Because I live in a rural area that still has farms, there are always a lot of 4-H events in which kids show off the animals they've raised that year.  There are horses, cows, pigs, sheep, goats, llamas, poultry and rabbits on show, with their proud owners standing by to give their pet pig a bath just before the judging.  There are rides, all sorts of foods, displays of baking, canning and crafts from photography to handwork, music, a tractor pull and a pig scramble (put a dozen women and greased pigs in a small area and stand back), etc.  It's lots of fun.  I usually take a quick visit to the poultry and rabbit displays and look at the hand crafts and this year I took a few photos.  The rabbit was one of the few awake when I ran through the exhibit this year early one morning.


Sadly there isn't much needlepoint on display.  There never is.  What you see is one piece of needlepoint (the blue purse) with a lot of crewel and cross stitch.  The counted thread piece two pictures to the left of the purple ribbon one is a Berlin woolwork-style counted thread design done on black Aida over one.  It was quite pretty, although very hard to see in the photo.


There is a lot of crewel and knitting in this photo, actually more crewel than I've seen in years.




One of the two Best in Show purple ribbons (one is given out in each age group, the quilt winner is in the Over Sixty Age category) is the quilt in the center of the piece. The hand quilting pattern was beautifully done but it doesn't show up in the photo.  Sadly, there are fewer quilts this year than usual but there is much more knitting.


Another better shot of the Best quilt plus a very nice counted thread piece frame to its left.  I ran into the counted thread piece's stitcher.  It is this design from Darleen O'Steen who lives over the mountain from us in the D.C. suburbs.


Here's a better look at the other Best in Show piece, SharonG's Blue Purse.  Watson is inspecting the ribbons when I brought it home when the fair ended.  Yes, the piece is under glass.


My first Best in Show ribbon!  I wore it on the front of my t-shirt all day.

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