Country Women's Association: Craft Fair.

Before Easter this year I had decided I was going to “go nuts” and enter a whole bunch of things into the Country Women's Association State Craft Fair this August. Due to a rather large number of things going wrong with my hands since March this isn't happening any more.

Mainly because, unlike the group craft fair that happened in March, the state fair is, well, state wide. There's bound to be more entries. Enough that mine won't be missed if I leave it for a year or two.

I had planned on a rather extensive list of crafts to enter. I'm still going to make them all, I'm just going to take a bit longer and document them all on here first.

So. A list first. Numbered with the CWA listing in the entry form to make it easier for myself to find and tag them later. (If I had more than a month to get it all finished I'd still enter a bunch,, but it's too close.) Since everything will be photographed and documented along the way, I'll keep adding the links in on this post as the new blog post is put up as well.

Handicrafts

Bags

7. Embroidered
8. Knitted/crocheted
9. Patchwork

Canvas

17. Long Stitch

Craft, other techniques

36. Floor rug or mat, any other type

44. Pin cushions, 3 distinct techniques, boxed

50. Something new from something old

Crochet

53. Baby's Garment
54. Child's Garment
55. Booties, 3 pair, distinct pattern, boxed
56. Adult Garment

61. Rug
62. Shawl/wrap/shrug/snood
63. Headwear
64. Accessory set, 2 pieces. Eg hat and scarf or hat and gloves etc
65. Scarf

Cushion

68. Embroidered

Dressmaking

78. Apron, themed

Dyeing/Spinning/felting

102. Felting – Knitted

Embroidery

112. Cross stitch – stitched area 30cm and under

Knitting

151. Child's Garment
152. Baby's Garment
153. Baby's Set
154. Bootees, 3 pair, distinct styles, boxed
155. 
     
156. Headwear
157. Accessory set, 2 pieces, eg. Hat and scarf etc
158. Article using 2 or more different coloured yarns
159. Pair of socks
160. .
161. Scarf
162. Shawl/wrap/shrug/snood
163. Tea Cosy, creative
164. Knitted cotton/garment/article

Toy

196. Character – name character
197. Crochet
198. .
199. Knitted
200. Set of related toys
201. Soft and safe for baby

See. And awful lot of things to get finished. And right now I have.....2 things finished to my standards of entry. This is what happens when you have an allergic reaction to an ant bite on your left hand, followed by a bee sting on your right hand, followed by a fall that resulted in 2 weeks of plaster and a following 4 so far of your left hand being strapped up immobile. This year has been less than good starting from about the 8^th of March. Please ignore the numbers that don't have anything written, my word program is having issues with leaving out a number in a numbered series.

Understandably, the crafts that come up in the blog posts that are coming will be as I make them, not in numbered list order that appears here. Mainly because... well.. the crocheted Headwear is already done, and technically the knitted scarf is as well. But due to a weak left hand, and being a left hander for crochet, the knitted stuff will likely get done before the crochet, I'm still working on the rug at #36, because it's a whole bunch of plaiting, and pulling it hard enough to not come undone is painful as well. The knitted Shawl is under way however and it's a third of a 3 part set, the other two parts will be entered as a “set of 2” but I'm not decided on whether I'm going to knit or crochet them as yet.

One last thing before I go start the individual crafted blogs. I am NOT good at making up my own patterns. Not for anything beyond dishcloths anyway. So I will either link to the exact place I got a pattern from, or in the case of me getting it from a book, give credit to the book itself. Having said that, if you find I have posted something and NOT given credit to someone (and if by chance I write my own, I will claim it fairly blatantly) and you know who SHOULD have credit, please poke me and I'll get it fixed.