Thanks, everyone. I appreciate the compliments and words of support. :)
Originally Posted by kluedesigns
congrats! you deserve it. your work it stunning. just goes to show you, you don't have to hand stitch the binding to win - you just have to do stellar work.
Klue, I smiled when I read that because one of the comments that the judge wrote on the back of my entry tag was something like "nice work on the binding". When I read that I immediately thought of that thread here on the forum from a few days ago where we were discussing hand vs. machine binding and the comments in the thread about judges looking at the execution rather than the technique.