On Aug 21, 2004, at 20:58, Whitham (Irene) wrote:
My 3 First Premium ribbons will be highly valued as well. I entered my lace
in the fair for the first time and won.
Congratulations, Irene; nothing's sweeter than dipping your toes (entering a fair for the first time) and finding that the water is nice and warm (winning some ribbons)... :) Happened to me, the first time I entered the IOLI contest (1991; (large) butterfly on my website) and won first in BL. That's the ribbon I treasure the most (and the only one I know, the moment I look at it, what it was for <g>).
I challenge all lacemakers to entry into your local fairs.
Yes, well... I'd amend that - at least for myself - with "an if". *If* there's a lace category in place, so that you compete against other lacemakers... Obviously, it's not an issue in your case - you say you demo-ed with other lacemeakers, so there *are* other lacemakers in your area. But, in my case... I entered once in my local (Rockbridge County) fair. There is no separate lace class/category/division/whatever, so I entered in the Holiday Ornament one (with the Partridge in a Pear Tree; also on my website). I got first for that one also, but no joy; it felt like kicking someone who was down already - not quite honourable...
And, although the judge (judges? I don't know anything about the workings of that fair) obviously had enough discernment to recognize the difference between that and a wooden WalMart heart with machine-made lace stuck around it, I bet most of the fair-goers who viewed the results were puzzled by the decision; the piece was - by far - the least "showy" of them all... So I gave them back their monetary reward (to be used as needed, for the continuation of the fair), don't display the ribbon (it's filed with the pattern itself), and never entered again.
I agree with Aurelia (even dulled out with pain killers, you still have all your wits about you, sweetie <g>); just the product itself isn't going to "cut the mustard"; it's the *process* that's likely to tickle people's imaginations, and get their fingers itchin'...
--- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush.
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