August 4, 2015: fiber arts Tuesday

Last year, for the first time, I entered three hand-spun items in the Mountain State Fair. Call it beginners luck: everything I entered won a ribbon! This year I'm determined to win at least one ribbon. Tomorrow I'll be taking my entries for this year's fair to the Jackson County Agricultural Extension office; someone there will take entries from Jackson County to the fairgrounds in time for judging. My entries for this year are a striped shawl, a skein of multi-color hand-spun yarn, and a skein of hand-dyed hand-spun yard that was dyed with natural plant materials. I'll find out how things went when we go to the fair in September.