Friday, November 4, 2016

Craftree Awards

Well, well. I was checking in on things at Craftree yesterday (I do keep my nose in there. A lot!) and noticed a red box at the top signifying that I had a message. It was from Kersti. Seems my monster doily is shortlisted for the annual Craftree awards. If anyone would like to vote on it, you can here. If you want to vote for another, that is fine too. I can appreciate all the entries and the work that went into them.
Vote Here
There are 4 other doilies in the running and they are all quite good. Serious competition. I couple have me doubting mine is good enough. There are other categories there too. One is for beginners. You would not know they were beginners.
 I never once, when I was making that doily, thought that it might win anything. I just wanted to make a doily to put on my table in the bedroom, like you see in the photo. Then someone mentioned it and off we went. After this year, I will probably fade back into the woodwork. It would be quite hard to try to match all that again.  Like people have said before, I really think it is more the journey than the destination. I am glad the doily is done, but I miss working on it.
Now I probably will just do my experiments and work on the TAT program. I do want to make a few things, but I am in no rush.

8 comments:

  1. Congratulations, I have also been nominated too for another category so good luck

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    1. I saw that. I like the piece too. And since I am ham radio operator and use sine waves it makes me like it more. Good luck to you too.

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  2. I love the colours you've used! - I have voted.

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  3. Magnificent! How long did it take you to tat it? What size is it please? I have voted.

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    1. In spare time, usually about an hour or two a day, it took 1 1/2 years. It came out 30" diameter. The table I use it on is 24".

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  4. No matter who wins the category, your work is stunning. Congratulations on a stellar piece of tatting!

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  5. Congratulations, Tim, on making the short list. Your doily is remarkable. So glad to see it in the finals.

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