Judging At The Fair Gounds

I was out the door by 8:30 am to get to the fairgrounds. My judging time was 9 am. Rita was judging with me and we had to wait to get started. Deanna needed to do the running to get us going. We ended up starting late, I believe. 

Deanna was running around getting the quilts and making sure we had everything we needed. Tables were set up for judging. Rita and I worked on over 70 quilts. 

They stopped for lunch, then we got back to it. We didn't get done till 7 pm with all the quilt judging. I was thrilled to see that Geralyn got Grand Champion, and I thought she got the reserve as well, but that was actually Connie Taylor's quilt. 

Once they were judged they were stacked up. I was disappointed this year. I had to give out so many red ribbons, I felt so bad about that. But honestly, they were not done well. I did give a white ribbon out and rarely do I do that. 

Bindings this year were awful! I couldn't believe how badly the machine stitched bindings were! I was shocked at how badly the corners were done. Too bad David isn't around anymore, because he taught binding and the quilts were so much better for it. This time I think we got a lot of new quilters, and some of their stuff was beautiful, except for the bindings or they didn't square up their piece. So, there really wasn't much in the way of "great" quilts. Except for Geralyn's and Connie's. 

I didn't make it home till 7:30 pm and my back and foot are KILLING me. I have PT tomorrow and I hope I can walk on my leg! UGH. 

I don't think what I did today counts towards Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!