Kiama Show.....not happy Jan!

I put a 4ply Pink pure wool baby dress in Kiama Show which got first place. I did a 3 piece baby set (matinee jacket, bootees, bonnet) old fashioned I know but that is what the category is, it didn't get anything. It was the same pattern as the dress. As I was looking at the knitting yesterday, people were commenting on how beautiful the dress and set was.

Now for the bitch.....yeah I do it well.....and it isn't sour grapes either.

There were a couple of 3 piece sets, so I would imagine I won't be the only unhappy knitter, what came 2nd was an acrylic cardigan a headband and bootees, of which the cardigan pattern and the bootee pattern were different. I know this person from Guild. She also won the category "any other item knitted not already mentioned" which opens it up to a huge amount of different items. Well this same person won with a pair of bright yellow bed socks again acrylic yarn and to me looked machine knitted (which this person does) with multi coloured WAIT FOR IT.....'Ostrich' yarn around the top now this won first place in this huge category.......WTF were the judges thinking......who TF were the judges this year. I reckon the people who entered in these other categories and SHIT items won a few categories this year....and yes this is my opinion.....but a lot of you know my knitting too....so you know I will be fair in what I say. Now to decide whether or not I will re-join Kiama Show next year or even knit for it in 2011. That I will decide soon. As usually I would be pissed off enough to have already said I will not enter Kiama Show again....and I am true to my word.....so I will just ponder the thought for a while.

Anyway.....enough of the bitch in me.

I am off to SNB in Wollongong in a few minutes via my very very favourtie yarn store - CR&K Daisy Design in Fairy Meadow (Daisy Street), to see if they have some 3.75 addi circulars, I am now knitting the 8ply socks for our Aussie troops in Afghanistan (it gets freezing over there - I was shocked when I learnt that) and need a second pair. At the moment I am using a 3.5 and a 3.75 which there isn't much difference, the only thing is one is attached to a 1 metre length and is a bit of a pain while knitting.

I also have started to knit my left over sock yarn and I am doing it while learning the magic square to make a rug. I am not going to match squares with colours I am just going to knit until the yarn is all gone then join the next colour.

Stash busting is well under way.

I will add pictures of my show entries when I get them back tomorrow.