The Flower ball

At last pics of the flower ball.

Ignore the end of the cord I didn't trim it till it was in the marquee so I knew the height it needed to be

Cheshire Show results

I knew we'd done well at the Cheshire Show but I wasn't prepared for just how well we did!!

Out of the 3 classes we entered as an institute one didn't do so well.  We went with a Persian theme as one of our member is from Persia, all the items are authentic inc the sugar!

I won a first place with my Post Box

We won a trophy with out Corner shop, my ball scored 19 and I think had we noted that the fabric was hand dyed it would of been 20

The score card

But with out third class we scored a total of 77 and walked off with 2 trophies!!!!!!!

The poppy vase is the work of yours truely

The score card

And a close up pic of one of the pieces of silver 

The other 2 are shared with other institutes so I don't have pics of those.

I've been bouncing all day long and can't quite believe that of the 3 items I contributed (2 combined and my individual) and a possible max 60 points I scored 59, that as an institute we did so well and all the hard work by everyone involved payed off so well 

Now that I have the ball and vase home I'll get pics posted in the next day or so

Garden Ball

As I said in my TUSAL post yesterday I've spent the last few weeks working on nothing but Twisted Oaks Garden Pincushion Ball and I have finally finished all the stitching.

I've used Slightly Buttery from Sparklies and the called for Dinky Dye Silk and my version says flower not garden to fit in with the entry.

Now I just have to finish putting it together which is well under way and make the cord