Sorry for the absence but I have been a little tied up with our local agricultural show...... the Heytesbury Show. Every year around this time the Simpson Recreation Reserve comes alive with thousands of people enjoying our country show. And for the fifth year I have been 'in charge' of the Homecraft Pavilion and the exhibits of produce, flowers, fruit and vegetables, handcrafts, knitting/crochet and photography. I work with a great team of ladies to put on a display that rivals many of the larger shows. This year we had just under 850 exhibits. Friday was our judging and set up day, and yesterday everyone got to enjoy the display.
Some very beautiful quilts were entered.....check out Julie's version of Gail Pan's 'All things Christmas' quilt.......and it won first prize!
I try to enter a few things in the Show every year......but this year I was a little light on. My hexagon quilt has taken me away from stitching (or at least finishing projects) and the garden has also suffered from my lack of attention........with the vegetable garden being a no go this year. But I did manage to scratch around and enter a few flowers.....and as a 'special' entry put this in the class called 'collection from my garden'. The judge awarded it equal third because of my inventiveness.........how many of you have flowers like this in your gardens?
It included: wild radish, deadly nightshade, scotch thistles, milk thistle and sticky thistle!
Another fabulous feature of the Heytesbury Show is the Mystery Showbag. My girls have always done it and this year I did it for the first time with Hannah. For $5 you get a bag and a map which you take around the showground, stopping off at 20 different points to collect your goodies. This is what I got this year:
All this for $5 !!! But if you plan to come along next year to have a go be warned.....the bags go on sale at 10am and yesterday they were all sold in about one hour.......it's limited to 250 bags.
The Show was a great success and the weather was perfect.......and the entry is only $15 per family!
Linda :)
that showbag sounds like the yellow brick road one i did at the royal melb show many years ago with my eldest daughter... got us going to places we may not have seen and we got bits and pieces along the way. your one looks waaaaaaaaaaaay better though :)
Posted by: libby | March 06, 2011 at 10:36 PM
The displays all look fantastic - well done to you and the team! Love your "flower" collection! now back to the hexies!!
Posted by: Lorraine | March 06, 2011 at 11:34 PM
Hey Linda, congrats on the equal 3rd...you could start a nursery with "unique" plant types!
cheers Julz
Posted by: Julz at Simple Stitches | March 14, 2011 at 10:51 AM