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A horrible sewing project gone wrong

Earlier this month Extension Educator Phyllis Lewis’ asked what your first sewing project was.

That question brought to my mind my first and really my last sewing project. I took a home economics course in school that included nine weeks of sewing, nine weeks I’d like to forget.

My mother was a wonderful embroider, embroidering pillow cases and dish towels and table runners. My grandmother crocheted wonderful afghans and doilies. Somehow those talents skipped right over me. I tried embroidering once but had about as much luck as my big project in home economics.

In home economics I tried to pick the easiest pattern for a shirt I could find. I made a white blouse with buttons. I should have tried a pullover. I hate buttons and button holes as I struggled considerably with getting the button holes the right size and right shape and having to redo a few.

I did do one cross-stitch project in college. A small group I was in thought it’d be fun to do them for Mother’s Day. I think I finally finished mine in the middle of the summer, not quite Mother’s Day.

Ah, the memories. I thought of these moments as well in watching Tuesday’s style revue. The projects modeled at the style revue showed all the hard work our youth did with their projects. I don’t know if any of them had problems like me but you couldn’t tell.

I was also impressed with the creativity and diversity of the projects. These youth were gifted with skill for sewing.

A busy month in August

And that leads my into the second part of this column …. a busy month in August.

This week, many youth from Washakie County, Hot Springs and Big Horn will be showing their hard work with 4-H and FFA general projects, livestock and other animal projects at the respective county fairs. Along with the opportunity for the youth to show off their projects, county fair is an opportunity for good music, food, rodeos, parades, pig wrestling and here in Worland for the first time a monster truck rally to end the week next Saturday night.

But all that in one week is just the start of a busy month. The final weekend of fair is also the weekend of the first Battle of the Bands.

But wait, there’s more. After that comes the meet the candidate forum sponsored by the Worland Business and Professional Women’s Club Aug. 9, in preparation for the Aug. 16 election. In between those two events is the annual Nowoodstock festival in Ten Sleep. After the election comes the Pepsi Wyoming State Championship BBQ and Bluegrass Festival, followed the next weekend by an Antique Show.

And then, the school year that started in the middle of the month gets in full swing with fall sports galore.

While we suffer through the warm temperatures in August, with a busy month it will go by fast and we’ll be complaining about the cold before you know it. In the meantime, enjoy all the festivities while the good weather lasts.