Slightly off topic
I was taken aback a couple of weeks ago when I was approached first by Toni and then later by Mary Macheroux at the McHenry County Fair asking if I'd be willing to judge the knit and crochet entries for this year's fair. I had some doubts about my qualifications, but in the end I agreed to do it.
Now I'm looking for advice on the subject. There are not usually a huge number of entries, and I know fair judges here get an opportunity to write comments to each entrant with suggestions and so forth. But there seems not to be any judging standard. I had expected something with so many points for design, so many for execution, so many for originality, appropriateness of materials, and so forth. I guess I can invent one, but if any of you are aware of articles on the subject, I'd sure be thankful to hear about it.
It's official, the letter of confirmation arrived in yesterday's mail, so I'll be doing this on August 1. Hopefully, I won't be tarred and feathered for my choices.
Now I'm looking for advice on the subject. There are not usually a huge number of entries, and I know fair judges here get an opportunity to write comments to each entrant with suggestions and so forth. But there seems not to be any judging standard. I had expected something with so many points for design, so many for execution, so many for originality, appropriateness of materials, and so forth. I guess I can invent one, but if any of you are aware of articles on the subject, I'd sure be thankful to hear about it.
It's official, the letter of confirmation arrived in yesterday's mail, so I'll be doing this on August 1. Hopefully, I won't be tarred and feathered for my choices.
posted by Gary Lee Phillips at 9:11 AM
2 Comments:
Gary,
You can take a course to learn how to become a knitting judge. It only costs $160, but that may be a tad more than you'll make if you judge at the fair for a lifetime.
In the meantime, here's a pdf for the Kansas 4-H knitting judging sheet: http://4-h.k-state.edu/Projects/JudgingStandards/FiberArts/knitting_judging_sheet.pdf. It's not exactly what you want, but it may be of some help.
Thanks for the pointers to those files, Susan, they should be helpful.
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