Good for you or entering. :) I can only speak for my local fair. To be honest, it depends, they judge each item different...seriously and there is no beginner level at our fair, there are just categories. I didn't get a chance to enter anything this year, my family and friends kept after me to put some things in, but time flew by before I realized so I didn't get to enter anything. Congrats on entering your projects, sometimes the items that win, you would think they might not and others that don't win, you might think they should. Sometimes it is hard to "decode" what the judges are really judging. However, there is always next year...:)