Thursday, June 21, 2018

It's Fiddle Week

It's a busy week here in Weiser, the National Old Time Fiddle Contest is taking place. This happens the third week in June every year and it runs on lots of volunteer hours. I finished my stint of hours at noon today. For the past eleven years I've been a checker, I check the tabulations of the judges scores to make sure everything is correct before it is input into the computer. I sit with the person that tabulates the scores in a little room, we get to hear the music but not see the performances. The judges are in a bigger room next to us and they also hear it but don't know who is playing.

Back in May 2010 there was a contest held to decorate large plywood fiddles, I participated and won the contest. If you go back thru my blog archives there are several posts about decorating the fiddle. Here I am with the finished fiddle.

And here is how the fiddle looks today hanging from a power pole.
The decorated fiddles are hung on power poles on the town's main streets and near the contest site for the week of the contest, so every year I search mine out.

On Saturday there will be the annual parade and this year I'll be walking in part of the parade handing out Library bookmarks. The things you end up doing when you're a board member.

I put together another donation quilt top last weekend, it's waiting for a backing and quilting.

2018 Weekly leaf #25

Before Stitching

After Stitching


2018 Daily Stitching #2  days 22-28

A lot of french knots


I'll be linking up with "Off the Wall Friday" and "Slow Sunday Stitching".

10 comments:

  1. Your weekly leaf stitchings are a revelation to me.

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  2. Your diversity of work is impressive. I love your slow stitching pieces, but the fiddle is fabulous!

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    1. Thanks, the fiddle was a fun divergent from my normal work.

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  3. Yes indeed, your fiddle is fabulous! Are those old CD's used to decorate ? How appropriate!

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    1. Yes, old cd's, buttons, glass beads and paint.

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  4. I love your weekly leaves. I've just spent a lovely hour looking at all of them. They are beautiful!

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    1. Thank you! I'm honored that you spent that much time with them.

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  5. Your stitches are always inspiring! Great charity quilt and I love the fiddle. My Dad was a fiddler for over 80 years and played in contests every year including the Canadian Old Time Fiddling contest in Shelburne, Ontario, Canada. We had a champion fiddler, Shane Cook, play the Ashokan Farewell at his funeral. It was beautiful

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    1. Since I've moved here I've developed a real appreciation for fiddle music. I love the Ashokan farewell, I bet it was a very beautiful and poignant moment.

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