Fair Results!

There are some great quilts at the fair this year, I don't know what I'll do next year to compete... I'll come up with something!  We were going to go tomorrow, but we are supposed to have a very rainy weekend this weekend (THANK YOU LORD!), so we decided to go this evening.  I hadn't seen any results yet, but I had a dream last night that my quilt ended up with a third place ribbon overall.  I was sad (they do the Dutch judging system based on standards, and also American for the top).  What a dream... the funny part though was the rosette ribbon (for third!) had a push button in the center and it played a song :)  Can you even imagine? LOL!

I was a Class winner again this year!!  I was very excited.  This year my quilt wasn't fully displayed like my Jane quilt was last year, but they placed it near another Orca Bay!  So cool to see the differences.  I changed my layout regarding the dark and light Ohio Stars (the other orca bay shows the layout that Bonnie Hunter wrote up in her pattern).

I loved this bench, made by the Stanwood FFA group:

Go WSU Cougs!

And then we put the boys in hamster balls into a pool and laughed :)



We had fun, and now my feet hurt.  I've been using a fitbit since July and right now my goal is 7000 steps a day.  I've been able to make that goal usually, and in a couple of weeks I plan to up it by another 1000.  Today I surpassed that to over 10,000.  If standing and waiting counted with the steps, that'd be awesome since we did a lot of that!   I'm scheduled to do a goal challenge with my friend Julie tomorrow, I hope I make it :)

I'd love a foot massage right now.

Fair Results

I am humbled.  I can't even begin to tell you how much.  Yesterday when I looked up the results for The Evergreen State Fair (Monroe, WA), I saw that I was a "Class Winner".  Being completely new to entering anything in a fair, I didn't know what that meant.  A friend explained to me that it meant I was a "Best In Class" winner!  Wow! Really??? Even in all my errors that I know to exist in my Jane?  After the major tuck in the back that I hand sewed down (and really, you can't even tell there is one at all now)?  The backing that is made of scraps and my "map" to the fabrics I wanted to use for the blocks?

Kevin came home from work in the late afternoon today and we decided to go ahead and go.  We went to the quilt/sewing barn first (after parking a million miles away and checking out the horses).  After initially not finding my Jane hanging, we started to walk back to the entrance again and look.

I found her.

Over the moon is the only thing I can say.  Three ribbons!!  Here is the explanation for the pink/white:


Jane and I.  She was three rows from the entrance, but facing the opposite way.


Here is a link to my finished Jane quilt album (there are also some process and block pictures as well).

And a few fair pics...

Unusual chicken:


You will probably need to click through, but what would you guess on this one? Chicken or rabbit?  These were interesting too!


Free rides


I wonder if they are buddies? The silver cow was sleeping, but I just can't see how that was even comfortable.


Before we went into the goat barn, Darrin told me goats eat anything.  'Tis true... even blue ribbons!


I want one! Spot would be great for the blackberry bushes next door :)


This photo makes me laugh:


That's my fair report.  Again, I am so happy that quilty friends urged me to go for it and enter when I got a wild hair and asked if I should.  It was beyond my expectations.  Maybe I will finish my Orca Bay for next year?