My quilting friends had seen the finished product and kept harrassing me to enter it into the fair. I've never done that before and I'd already given it the family.
So finally I asked my co-worker if it could have it back for the fair for just a couple weeks and "you can so no, it's ok. I won't be offended. It will give me an excuse not to enter it."
They were estactic to see it in the county fair, I was friends with the lady who did the ribbons so she allowed me to have a second 3rd place ribbon so I could have one for my scrap book and they could keep one attached to the quilt.