I know it is just a local county fair - but - I gotta brag!!!!

The silly part is that everyone gets a blue 1st place ribbon!!!
That is everyone but me on my crazy quilt, it only got a second place. Everything else got the blue ribbon along with whatever other ribbons. Weird!!

I asked about that this morning when I took my stuff in and was told that you get the blue ribbon just for the effort of making it and bringing it in.


Thanks for looking

Your machine applique skills are awesome!! Love the heart on the blue jeans

They are both winners with me! Love them both:)

Recycled VCR tape purses - *amazing*! Love them all :)

Well, anyway, CONGRATS! Love your effort.

Love them all! Thanks for sharing. Must have been FUN!!

All are very nice, love them all.

All very nice,you've been busy. I'd brag too.

I love the denim.

You can brag all you want, you deserve to

they are all very nice good job

Congrats! You have some fun projects there!

wow! those recycled vcr tape bags are awesome!! What a great way to recycle!

Great creations

Okay, gotta ask....VCR tape purses? Where did you get such an idea? I'm a librarian, we have so many VCR tapes to toss out it's crazy. Maybe if I make one or two and show them to the kids, some of the craftier ones might give it a whirl. I'd gladly give them the tapes. PS Love that baby ball. I have one, but I thought it was a pin cushion! Each section has a different type of pin. That way all my pins are close but not mixed up. The grandkids love to separate them--except the one who like to mix them up! You have lots of talent and interests. Good going.

I think I saw it on the internet someplace. Just someone mentioning crochet with VCR tape so I tried it.

I just make up the pattern as I go. It is really hard to put a lining in because you have nothing really to sew to.

The black & silver one that won reserve grand champion is the only one with a lining. I sewed it in by hand very carefully going around strands of tape and not sewing thru them.

I love all your entries, especially the crazy quilt.

You are very talented great wins :-D :thumbup:

beautiful work - love to see the variety of work done by others. Nice stuff!

Congratulations on your entry!

I like the crazy scrappy King Size Tied quilt.

I like the hearts you put on the blue jean quilt and I love your crazy quilt!! Great job!!

Congrats.

Congrats.

Congrats.

Wow! Congratulations!

I've made bags out of plastic bags but not thought of VCR tapes!!

Wow, you've been busy!

congratulations on your blue ribbons!!!! and all the other awards!!!! looks like you swept the crafting part of the fair!

You have the right to brag with all those ribbons! Congrats!

WOW! You did Great!

Looks like you had fun at the fair!

I really wanted it quilted but I have not tried that yet and I thought this one was too big for a beginner. I thought about having someone else do it until I found out how much $$$$

my mother made a pin cousin like that i love it :-P

Wow! great projects ! You are a multi-talented lady. Congratulations.

Very nice work!!! You are one busy, talented lady.
Tommie

Great job!

Perhaps they just ran out of blue ribbons! Ask if you didn't get one...and everybody else did...You might accidentallky been overlooked...
Actually that sort of thing has been happening for years....usually they have so many categories that they only have one or two entrants per category so they get the ribbons.
When I was a kid in about 1945 I entered a piece of string weaving, that I had made on my aunts loom.in our county fair. The judges had never seen that kind of "craft" before so they invented a category and gave me a blue ribbon!
And those ladies that won ribbons for their jelly or a pie or quilting hung those ribbons on the tops of their dresser mirrors and enjoyed the whole thing immensly!
It is a kind of nice American country custom!

Perhaps they just ran out of blue ribbons! Ask if you didn't get one...and everybody else did...You might accidentallky been overlooked...
Actually that sort of thing has been happening for years....usually they have so many categories that they only have one or two entrants per category so they get the ribbons.
When I was a kid in about 1945 I entered a piece of string weaving, that I had made on my aunts loom.in our county fair. The judges had never seen that kind of "craft" before so they invented a category and gave me a blue ribbon!
And those ladies that won ribbons for their jelly or a pie or quilting hung those ribbons on the tops of their dresser mirrors and enjoyed the whole thing immensly!
It is a kind of nice American country custom!

What a wonderful idea to give everybody blue ribbons.

I just love them all and thanks for sharing.

Our fair's Open Class is getting smaller & smaller so they want to encourage everyone to participate so they won't discontinue this event.

I picked up the book that shows all the classes and I told my Aunt that next year I am going to see how many classes I can enter. That should be fun and keep me busy!!!