I’ve entered my Portuguese Whitework tablecloth in the Sydney Royal Easter Show this year. I dropped it off at the showground a couple of Saturdays ago. We were late in the day on the last day of drop offs, so I could see what was there in the way of competition.<\/p>\n
There didn’t seem to be much embroidery this year. The show seems to be getting smaller and smaller in terms of embroidery. Of course, though, it wasn’t actually all properly displayed yet, so there may have been much more that was wrapped up still.<\/p>\n
I had to fill out a form with my entry and one of the questions it asked was “Why do you enter things in the show?” This was an interesting question. Why DO I enter things in the show?<\/p>\n
I think my answer is along the lines of peer review. I have, in the past, won at the show, and my work has even been in The Cabinet of Excellence. I guess I enter things to give myself an idea of how my needlework skill compares to others’ skill. If I do well, it tells me that my work is still of a high standard.<\/p>\n
However, being realistic here, I suspect that skill is not all that they are measuring. A tiny piece of work done with AMAZING skill may not win against a much larger work with slightly less skill. So I wonder if quantity of work also counts as well as quality.<\/p>\n
It would be very interesting to have the perspective of a needlework judge actually.<\/p>\n
Anyway, if you go to the show, you might like to head to class 62 in needlework section of the Arts and Craft Pavilion, and see if my tablecloth is on display. It will probably be in amongst a fairly disparate group of articles, as the class description is “Embroidery work. Exhibitor’s own design, with or without machine embroidery.” That was the best category I could find for it. (Actually, that’s one of the rather annoying things about the show – it IS hard to find the appropriate category for a lot of needlework, unless it is something standard like Hardanger or cross stitch.)<\/p>\n
I’m not sure if I’ll get to the show this year – it is doubtful with the amount of other things I have on – so I’m not even sure when I’ll find out how it did! The Sydney Royal Easter Show starts this Thursday, 5th of April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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