I won 1st place in the local yearly fair for a picture that’s similar to cross stitch but done w/square plasticbits pit ins clear base w/pegs sticking up that you place the plastic square on. It was a white cat w/blue eyes.
It was from a place called “pixel hobby” & it seems to have been popular in Europe. I did it abt 10 yrs ago or so.
Funny thing was when I registered they kept trying to put me in the cross stitch catagory because at 1st glance they thought it was cross stitch.
I had anticipated this issues, cuz I’d had so many ppl look at it while I was working on it & when I took it in to get framed and initially thought it was crosss stitch that I printed off a couple pics of the components, & several partly worked on pieces showing the clear bases (each pic is 9-18+ clear base panels which then have to be mounted together & framed-and THOUSANDS of little squares each added 1 by 1) w/squares being added.
After consulting they finally put me in general crafts & I thought I had no hopes of winning even honorable mention since they couldn’t eve figure out where to put me. I had several judges comment on the pics & how helpful they were . While it was displayed the hung it w/the pics showing for the public how was made .
Usually we go to the fair on opening night then 1 or 2 more times. I was sick that yr so I never made it to the fair but my sister went & she called me from the fair to let me know that I’d won 1st place for the pic. She even had to go pic it up for me.
I also got I think 3rd place on a cross stitch project abt 2-3 yrs before that.
I had made a pic w/oriental theme for a friend who had his berm decorated with some of those accents. It was a butterfly in the center (butterflies are by business mascot-business name is Flutterbees cuz when I 1st started doing craft shows I did rolled beeswax candles & liked butterflies-called them flutterbys-so I combined the 2 for Flutterbees).
It had an oriental coin going above the butterfly & “sticks” at the top & bottom so it looked like a scroll. I found a coin like the one on the pic so instead of cross stitching it I added the real coin, & instead of cross stitching the “sticks” I got some tiny wood dowels, cut then to size & painted a glossy black & mounted them w/gold cord.
I gave it to him but told him I had to get it back to enter in the fair. After it won 3rd place when I gave it back to him I gave him the ribbon too. He had said he was going to hang it in the office (he’s a dr) before taking it home .
He wanted to give the ribbon back but I said to keep it for awhile, so he gave it back abt 9 mo later after his pts saw it & then all his friends who came to visit him at home got to see it repeatedly.
Our local fair is one of the biggest in the state outside of the state fair in Columbia sc.
(sorry for the long post!)
