Facebook Live and The Florida State Fair

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Sand Dune Cardi from Annie’s Signature Collection

Join me on Wednesday February 26th at noon when I will be demonstrating the stitch from my design Sand Dune Cardi in the Annie’s Signature Collection Spring 2020.  Watch here on the Annie’s FB page

Florida State Fair

Have you ever been to a fair, county or state? (comment below and share)  I grew to enjoy fairs when I lived in WA state and became active in the Jefferson County Fair.  I entered items crochet and baking categories. I loved the community atmosphere, this Jersey girl had a lot to learn about animals, horticulture, canning, quilting, horses, barrel racing, draft horse pulls, monster trucks in the mud..… 

In WA I have won many ribbons for my crochet and baking over those years, even Best of Show in baking for my grandmother’s cookie/filled bread.  That happens to be the same grandmother that taught me to crochet. 

Napa Valley Shawl, Colored Cables Cowl, Ecliptic shawl

This year I entered 6 items into my first State Fair (Florida), 6 was the limit in the crochet category. There is a category for original design, but you can enter anything crochet from a pattern too.  I won 1st place for the Napa Valley Shawl (previously in an Annie’s publication) and second place for Colored Cable Cowl (also was published in an Annie’s magazine). I earned Honorable Mention for Karen Whooley’s design Ecliptic from her A Garden of Shawls book. I made it in red Bijou Basin Ranch Yak/Silk lace.  Ecliptic is my go to shawl. Read my review A Garden of Shawls.

Also, this year my CGOA chapter/crochet group Central Florida Crochet had a demonstration area on one of the Saturday mornings at the fair., the state fair runs for 14 days.  What a blast, 6 members started early from all over central Florida to get to the fairgrounds in Tampa by 7:30am. We brought so many samples, hooks, yarn, pompom makers….. 

1. Making pompoms with the girls 2-3. Working the crowd 4. Concentration 5. Crochet dress with built in bra 6-7. Our display

By 11 am we were rocking, I sat on the floor and taught 3 sisters how to make pompoms with the Clover pompom makers, we demonstrated Hairpin lace crochet, Tunisian and standard crochet to anyone interested, and there were plenty.  We hopefully gained a few new members too. Can’t wait until next year…. February 11-22 2021