…it must be state fair food.
Dear Jan,
It’s hard to believe any nutrition can be found in such an offering, but, you know, I think falafel-on-a-stick just might do it. At any rate, it was darned tasty - you could discern actual chickpeas and the herbs were spot on.
That was lunch today as I made a visit to the state fair. I saw some animals, watched the draft horse show, did my annual wondering as to whether making our dairy princesses sit in a refrigerated glass booth while their likenesses are carved in butter in front of crowds of onlookers will have a chilling effect on their mental health, and generally had a pleasant day.
The Fine Arts building was fine. An example of life depicting art depicting life, a portrait of a sheep, created by felting white sheep’s wool onto a background of black wool, won an award. The series of photos of squashes on vacation did not, but I enjoyed them anyway.
I spent much of the day examining the knitting entries. I was happy with my outcome, thrilled, actually, to win 1st place and a sweepstakes award for my gloves (Paula, that was great yarn you gave me last holiday!) and satisfied to win a 4th for my gansey.
Everything is bigger than life at the state fair, apparently even Dead Fish Hats.
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There was plenty of Bohus sighting. A Large Lace Collar knit by Shelly Monitor won big. What a beauty!
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But what’s this? According to the records, my Wild Apple cap had not won anything and yet here it is with a blue and a special award!!! Dang, it sure looks better than I remembered. Um, too good?
Yep. Over in the back of the room was my actual cap, knit at a larger gauge than the one that did all the winning and justifiably not sporting any ribbons. But a knitter can dream, can’t they?
I knit a bit on the bus on the little baby hat I’m designing for the Knitmore Girls contest, and knit some more on it when I got home. I’m maybe 50% of the way there, so finishing and writing the pattern by August 31 should be doable, shouldn’t it? (And casting on such a small project doesn’t really count as startitis, right?)
More to come on that later. Right now I’m busy dreaming about entries for next year’s fair.
Love,
Ellen
Jan and Ellen are identical twins who have always had an innate fashion sense. Crafting is an integral part of their lives and they stay stitched together sharing their love of knitting, family and community.
August 27th, 2010 at 7:17 pm
Sounds like fun! Congratulations on your ribbons! I’ve never entered in a state fair…I’ll have to think about doing that sometime, should I manage to come up with anything worth entering. =)
August 27th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
Congratulations! Now I’m going to have to stop saying that the right people never win the blue ribbons
I give a blue ribbon to your observation on the dairy royalty & their sculptures.
August 29th, 2010 at 10:26 am
I keep going back to that sunbathing picture…now what does it remind me of???
Thanks for cueing me to the Knitmore Girls contest. I made up a pattern yesterday at the farm and will write the pattern and reknit in smaller gauge today. I really like it!
And the gloves deserved to win…hands down! (Hee Hee!)
August 29th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Congratulations on the gloves ribbon!
August 29th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! “Ribbons is ribbons,” I’m delighted you won all those even if the gansey deserved better than 4th! You should have put in the repairs photos and explanation - it would have won for BEST FIX!!!
(and I agree with Jan on that squash photo…it’s got ME thinking of something else, too!)
(((Hugs)))
August 29th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
I swear, that picture did NOT take me to where it obviously took others. Heavens, this is a blog my MIL reads!
August 30th, 2010 at 7:29 am
Maybe your subliminal made you take that picture!!
August 31st, 2010 at 8:35 am
WOO HOO! Congratulations on your awards, Twinsetellen! I am looking forward to visiting the fair so I can see your entries up close and in person!
August 31st, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Hooray!! Congratulations on your well-deserved prizes!! That’s great news!
(And, I must say, there’s no way not to go there with that picture…)
P.S. Go voting!
September 1st, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Way to go! Congrats on your awards! And thank you so much for helping me with the purple sleeves! You were a god-send! I looked up Lancaster PA, and it appears to be about 2 1/2 hours east of Osterburg, PA. It really is a small world!