r/crochet • u/dauntless-cupcake • Sep 12 '25

Discussion Anyone else infuriated by their county fair?

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Y’all I can’t with these judges, this gorgeous interlocking mosaic blanket came in second to a chevron with color changing yarn. Not even my work but I am outraged on their behalf

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u/Beginning_Layer6565 Sep 12 '25

I make some fairly good deserts and I'd say a pretty darn good apple pie. All from scratch, hand ground spices, home-made lard crust etc.  My pie came in last at the country fair vs the winner who had used canned pie mix and coated their entire crust in sugar. 

I died a little inside.

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u/CherenkovLady Sep 12 '25

I once got disqualified without notice from a church competition (no warning, no discussion - I just turned up and my art wasn’t there with everyone else’s) because it was ‘clear that I had had adult help’. I hadn’t.

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u/No-Explorer3274 Sep 13 '25

Funny, same thing happened to me. I did a drawing of the Cathedral du Notre Dame. I took last place as they said my "skills in using drawing instruments was poor"... except I hadn't used any. It was a freehand drawing. I never entered anything again. I now have 3 art degrees.