Central States Fair Exhibits

The Central States Fair is held the 3rd week of August in Rapid City every year. It's kind of like our county fair, even though we live in a different county. This year i decided to exhibit a few of my quilts and clothing items. I took home 8 1st place ribbons, 6 2nd place, and 3 3rd place ribbons.  A few pictures of my quilts follow with their ribbons.
My newest quilt though not shown well here, is the Square pants block wall hanging that got a 2nd.
 
 The Koi fish quilt for my MIL got a 1st.

 

The sewing quilt got a 2nd and the OBW got a 3rd. 



The 5 & Dime got a 2nd.
 
 My jacket got a 1st, it's next to the winner of the class.
 
 The Schlep Bag I entered in the sewing competition got a 1st. I'll be teaching this one again soon as it's a fun class.

The Bib/Apron I made for Mikaela got a 1st.

The pants I made for Paul got a 1st in the serged category.

The Brown and Teal quilt got a 2nd.
 
 My English Paper Pieced, hand appliqued tablerunner won 1st and Best of class in the Original Design category. I was so excited to win as I had put in a lot of hours on this tablerunner in the past year.

Here's an up close of the ribbon. I've put it in my office with the tablerunner. I'm still so in shock! I won a $20 GC to a local craft store. It will be so much fun to go shopping for something new there.

Mikaela's cowgirls baby quilt won 2nd.

It was an exciting year at the fair and I so enjoyed entering. It would have been better had the lady who was entering my items not questioned if I'd really made all these or if someone else quilted them for me. I know she didn't know me, but it still felt downgrading that I shouldn't be able to make these items just because I'm young.