{"id":659,"date":"2007-04-20T22:48:54","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T12:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=659"},"modified":"2007-04-20T22:48:54","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T12:48:54","slug":"659","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

So I missed the entry date this year for the Easter Show. So I decided instead to enter our much, much smaller local version, the Campbelltown Show.
\nI knew it was smaller, but hadn’t been in maybe 12 years. I was a litte put out a week or so ago when I went up to the local council chambers and submitted my entries. The two older ladies collecting the entries looked at me, looked at my entry form, then looked at me again and very obviously didn’t know what to think. There are many prejudices in the world about knitting being for old ladies, obviously some of them are held by old ladies!
\nI entered three shawls, Icarus<\/a>, Fern Garden Stole<\/a> and Spring Blossoms<\/a>.
\nI have good news, and bad news.
\nThe bad news is that my 6 month old camera is misbehaving.
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\nThe good news is that Fern Garden got first in the shawl section and Spring Blossoms took second. No ribbons, all you get is a little card. (And prize money! $5 for first, $2 for second!) Poor Icarus got nothing, but I’m not greedy.
\nAnd my tea cosy.
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\nFirst!
\nThe picture I took at home on the teapot is better, though.
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\nI’m pretty pleased with it, but it took a few goes to get the flowers to look the way I wanted them to.
\nSo three places from four entries!
\nWhen I delivered my knitting on Wednesday, there was another older lady in front of me, delivering her stuff, too. I felt that she was a little bit condescending towards me. She insisted that I go ahead of her, because I “only had a few little things”, and she had “two whole pages worth!”
\nSo I went ahead, and started pulling my knitting out of the bag. She seemed a little taken aback when I pulled out the Fern Garden Stole, but she said “Oh, that’s gorgeous!” I thanked her, then carried on. When I pulled out the Tea cosy, she butted in to tell me that I’d entered it in the wrong section. I just looked at her and she said “Dearie, that shouldn’t be in the Tea Cosy section, it should be in hand felted items” I thanked her for her advice, but said “Sorry, it’s a tea cosy”. She then got a bit argumentative, and insisted it was hand felted. I had to insist to her that I’d entered it as “A knitted Tea Cosy with felted flowers for decoration” and the entry had been accepted.
\nAs it turned out, no-one had entered anything in the Felted section, so I would’ve won it anyway.
\nThat lady was there today, demonstrating weaving. She ignored me, except when I was pointing something out to Emily. Then she snappd at me “Don’t touch the exhibits!!”
\nI wasn’t touching.
\nAnyway, I was less than impressed with the standard of the entries. Lots and lots of novelty yarns.
\nIt definitely isn’t the Easter Show, that’s for sure.
\nAnd Ailsa? These were even more badly presented. (Excuse the bad picture)
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\nI didn’t even realise the camera was mucking up until I’d gotten home and downloaded the pictures. It’s going back to Kodak!
\nI pulled out the old camera to take a picture of the progress on my Shetland Shawl.
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\n12 repeats of the edging, out of 21. I don’t think this is going to be a quick knit.
\nDon’t forget the competition to win the “Knit One, Kill Two” book. Comment on the entry below to enter, I’ll be drawing a name tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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