Who'd have thunk it?

Today was our Woman's Club annual Arts and Crafts competition.  I always enter a few things, but can no longer enter quilts since I have sold a few things (although not recently) and am considered a pro.  You may remember this piece since I blogged about it here a while back asking which version I should donate to the Brookfield Craft Center as part of a fund raiser.  The other two were made of lots of little pieces fused down and then heavily machine stitched.  Most voted for one of those and that's what I donated.  They each took a lot of time.  This was just a photo transfer with some machine stitching to enhance the photo. I decided to enter it anyway, because I still thought it looked pretty good, but not great.

One of the categories is Stationery, and the sub category Stitched.  I was a Judge's Clerk, who follows the judges around and writes down the winners and place the ribbons.  Well, one of the judges went ecstatic over my little card and this was after seeing a lot of the other work.  Of course she didn't know it was mine. She gave it a First in its category and then after all the judging, a Best of Show is picked and they picked my little post card.

I really was rather embarrassed since some of the work there had taken ages to do......a fabulous mixed media painting, a beautiful woven scarf, some exquisite photography,  stunning stenciling, knitting, etc..  But I took my ribbon and ran.

I also got blue ribbons for my Shibori scarf, my silk tie scarf and one of my photos.

I'm linking with Off The Wall Friday.