Crafting still going on

I just realized that it's been a while since my last post and I have to admit that I have been really busy since that post.

One thing I did was attend the Creativ Festival and spent four days spending time with friends and crafting. It's amazing but so many of these friends only get together once a year but it feels like we were just together. This year I spent most of my time taking needlework classes and there were fun and now to work on getting the projects completed from these classes. I also took two knitting classes, one was good but the other one left a lot to be desired.

Between the Creative Festival and working, my crafting time has been limited in the last couple of weeks so haven't really had much to post. No pictures yet but will be posting some of the projects from the Festival once I get them finished.

Now that things are getting a little more organized I hope to be able to post a little more and hopefully will have pictures to post more often as well.

My yarn stash has grown in the last few weeks but have to say thanks to a friend for the yarn that she gave me a couple of weeks ago. I am currently working on getting some of this yarn into some scarves and blankets for charity.

Off to work on some stuff before it's time to call it quits for tonight.

Link to pictures

As promised I said I would set up a web-page to show you all the pictures of everything that I entered and all the ribbons that I won.

Again there is one picture still missing in both the entries section as well as the ribbon section. Once the person has seen it I will post the pictures.

Markham Fair pictures

Finally posting again

For those of you waiting to see some pictures I must say I am sorry for the delay. After pushing myself to get everything done for the fair I ended up with the virus that has been going around. This is the virus where you really can't think straight and don't have a lot of energy.

I am finally starting to feel a little better but still know that I have to watch what I do so that I don't get sick again.

Now to explain what I am doing with my pictures. I am going to posting a couple of pictures here on my blog and then will post all the pictures on my website so that you can see them at a higher resolution. It is going to take me a couple more days to get the web-page up but here is a taste for now. Once the web-page is posted I will attach a link to my blog so that you can see what I got ribbons for.

I have already started thinking of what I am going to make for next year. Not sure how many items I will end up entering but it was fun seeing the results this year.

I have pushed myself more this year than I have in the past and I am happy to say that I am proud at how far I have come. Now to continue my journey and see how far it really goes. I have a couple of ideas that I am currently working on and will see if they happen and then will continue to see what life has in store for me.

This adventure continues and thanks for being there to support me.

Results

Well I spent this morning checking out the results at the Markham Fair and have to say that there was a lot of really nice items placed in the competition.

Now I entered 14 items and my goal/hope was to receive at least 7 ribbons this year. I took myself out of my comfort zone of knitting, crocheting and cross-stitch and entered other categories are well.

Here are the results
3 - 2nd place
3 - 3rd place
3 - 4th place
5 - no ribbon

I will be posting pictures in the next couple of days but had just a few minutes to sit down and post this.

Everything is ready to go

It's been a busy few days but am extremely happy to say that everything is ready to be dropped off tomorrow for the Markham Fair Handicraft Competition.

Here are a few pictures of some of the items that I will be entering.

I will be adding more pictures during this week as there are 14 items that are being entered so will take some time to get them all uploaded.
I am glad that I got everything done and have to admit that a couple of times I doubted that I would be able to complete everything because it did seem like I was battling an uphill battle but it's over.

Now tomorrow I take everything up to the Fairgrounds and then will see the results later this week.

4 to go

Well I am happy to say that I only have 4 projects to finish by next Tuesday so with fingers crossed I should be able to get them all done.

I am been working pretty hard the last few days making sure that things are getting done. Two items are almost done, one is about 3/4 done and one is yet to be started. Ok I hope to start and finish the last project within a day or two so I should be fine.

I will be taking pictures once I have all the projects completed and before I drop them off for judging. I am hoping to do ok with the fair but only time will tell. A couple of my projects are a little different so that could also be what is making me a little nervous.

I am someone that doesn't normally show off any of my work so entering 14 items in a fall fair is a major step for me. Designing the name tag earlier this year has also helped me see that I should be happy with my work. It's amazing but normally only my family ever gets to see my work and know that I have done it. I do donate a lot of stuff to charity but no one knows it's my work so that has always made doing charity crafting easy for me.

Next week should be posting some pictures of the entries that I have done and then the results shortly after that.

I am finally starting to say that I am proud of the work that I do and will be taking a few more steps to show it off.

Found a little time this morning

Well I am starting to check things off my list of things to finish for the competition so starting to feel a little better about things. Yesterday I was able to finish two projects so now just have 7 more to finish before the end of the month. (5 at home and 2 need to be picked up)

I know I said that I might not be around much but decided to give myself a bit of a reward and sit in front of the computer for a few minutes this morning. Also needed to check the sales flyer for Michaels so another reason I am on the computer.

I sat yesterday and worked on the projects and it felt so good and I have also got two more underway which shouldn't take me too long to do. Of course the ones out of my comfort zone are still sitting not started so I better get working on them so that they can be finished as I am not sure how long they are going to take to complete.

Maybe today I will try and work on the baby afghan that needs to be finished as it is something easy for me to work on and also it's for the competition. It isn't even half way done yet but I think if I can concentrate on it for a couple of evenings I should be able to make good progress on it.

Well time to get off the computer and pick up the crochet hook or knitting needles for a while.

More progress reports later.