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2023 CUMBERLAND FAIR LEAF CHALLENGE

Calling all Tin Pedlar of Maine guild members! Your challenge is: to hook a leaf.

The following challenge is being made by the chapter, not the fair. Any items made for this challenge will be returned to the maker.

Here’s the challenge guidelines:

Size: as small as 4” or as large as 8”

Pattern: your choice! Use pinterest (Leaf template – 5 leaves / 21 different printable pages – free – download), use RH Magazine free patterns, use a real leaf, have someone draw you a leaf, ask a friend! Tin Pedlars have this printed pattern (6″ Maple leaves) you can trace from.

Coloring: Your choice! Make it primitive or realistic. But if you’d like an additional ‘challenge’, we saved some “poison” wool you can incorporate into your leaf. It will be available to you at our monthly meetings.

Finishing: Finish as an ornament. Cut it out as close to the leaf shape as possible (but doesn’t have to be exact). We do not want it finished as a square or circle with background. Ways to finish this edge are hand sew, whipping, crochet or glue up with a felt backing or heavy heat and bond fabric … your choice! You could even attempt a double-sided leaf!

Label your work: Please make sure you have a simple label on your leaf with your name and the date and “leaf challenge”.

Due date: no later than the May meeting, so that we can collect them and configure the display well in advance of the fair.

The goal: Our President is challenging us to have at least 20-30 participants!

Does anyone remember the presentation on hooking a Maple leaf?

Please note the Tin Pedlar will still be looking for other finished hooked pieces to fill up our usually fair exhibit space.

A Maine Postcard Challenge

May’s meeting saw the completion of this year’s challenge to the group: A Postcard from Maine. (For the few members who could not be present yet participated in the challenge please bring in your challenge mat at the June or Sept. meeting.)

At the inital introduction of the challenge there was a lot of buzz around our state bird: black-capped chickadee. (Jackie Hansen)

We wondered how many we’d see once all the mats were completed? If not the chickadee what would members design and hook? With the sharing of the completed mats the variety was wonderful. Hearing the stories for the choice of design added another component. (Look for a later sharing of these.)

Here are the mats that were shared during the May meeting. (Owners are labeled clockwise starting at upper left.) * Copywrite protected – Please do not copy any of these designs without requesting permission first.*

1) “Maine Symbol” Priscilla McGarry; 2) “Whoopie!” Pat Ring; 3) “Down East Breakfast” Jeanne Voorhees; 4) “Baked Beans” Natalie Sanborn

1) Terry Parent; 2) Harriet Johnson; 3) “Tatah” Bob Galloupe; “Sea Dogs” Norine Bucknell

1) Connie Castles; 2) Joyces Knowles

1) “Puffin” Martha chaput; 2) “Loon” Linda Bradley; 3) Edna Olmstead; 4) Sheila Kilgore

1) “Maine State Bird – Chickadee” Janet Cameron; 2) Trudy Winne

1) Daisy Higgins; 2)”Buoys” Deborah Arcaro; 3) Joyce Goff; 4) “Fish Market” Patricia Connors

1) Ann Galloupe; 2) Kathleen Newell; 3) Trudy Brown

1) Ann MacIntyre; 2) “Chowdah” Chris Antonak; 3) “Weather-beaten” (by Winslow Homer) Bailey Ruckert

Cumberland Fair 2012 Rug Challenge

At the November’s meeting there was a good amount of discussion around the value of continuing our group’s participation in the Cumberland Fair. It was suggested that it might be appropriate to designing a rug hooking challenge to be the display for our area. As follow up to that and a suggestion coming forward from the membership it was decided to offer the following challenge.

Hoping to encourage participation in this challenge, looking at the time of year for the fair and appreciating each member’s creative point of view there will be 3 parts to the challenge:

1) Using the foundation of your choice, the finished dimensions have to be a minimum of 10″ x 18″. If you go larger please be sure you can complete it in the allotted time frame.

2) It has to have a Fall/autumn theme.

3) It has to include the three circle shapes linked below. These 3 circles are to be used as sized and shaped in the linked patterns following. Click on each circle to access a printable form. Once you have accessed the form in Google Documents, up go to File, then Print to get the accurate size. If you need the templates copied for you just let an officer know.

Circle 1 – roughly 4 x 4-1/2
Circle 2 – roughly 4-1/2 x 5-1/2
Circle 3 – roughly 5-1/2 x 6-1/4

More information about when the finished rug/mat will need to be done for the Sept. 2012 fair will be coming. Feel free to let those creative juices start flowing and have fun designing your challenge piece. If you want to participate in this challenge, but are not comfortable with your abilities to make a pattern, other members have offered to help get your idea down as a pattern for your use.

Wool Challenge 2010-2011

Participants will:

Sign up with the chapter and receive a strip of wool 3″ x 18″ provided by the chapter
Use the majority of the wool – AS IS – no over dyeing
Use cut of your choice
May use embellishments of your choice
Use a pattern of your choice – original, adaptation or commercial design
Bring finished mat to upcoming meetings for a chance at a special door prize
Bring finished mat for display at the April 2011 meeting and be entered into the contest for the completed mats

This challenge is not a swap. Your mats may be of any size and theme. You just need to include the provided wool within your hooking.

Update*

It was fun to see how everyone used the wool. Completed challenge mats were displayed at the Cumberland Fair.

Faith Websters’ – the cat that is on the photo album won in 3 categories: