Seasons of Lace

Today we look at the Nominees for Lace Extravaganza (10 nominees).

Our Judges had more of a challenge with this category than with the prior two, as there were more than twice as many entries! Once again, I’ve selected what I perceive to be the key photos from the posts, and once again, I’ve linked to each post by title so you can check out the rest of the pictures the author originally listed. The nominees are, in the order in which they were first posted to the Seasons of Lace blog:

International Shawl (fini)

This is one of two, quite different, pictures from the blog post.

Neibling Shawl Finished

Madil’s Shawl

Hydrangea

a tour de force in beads, yes?

The next few nominees were knit during the Olympic Games — at least two from start to finish in those few weeks!

Ravelympics Hyrna

Look What the Ravelympics Made Me Do

Again, this is one of three excellent shots of this shawl. I don’t know which one the judges used as their voting criteria shot. Go check out the others… in case they liked one of them better. They’re all great shots.

Olympic Gold

Black Olives

Lyra

Though started as a Revelympics project, it didn’t quite make the finish line… but it WAS knit on 000s!

il mare ocsuro

It’s hard enough to choose from these selected photos… imagine the task when you’ve got the whole blog post for each of them! Aren’t our judges awesome?  (I tried to do it… it was brutal.  I am SO glad that none of the judging parts were up to me!)

I wish we could give prizes for all of them!  Or at least for those that ended up one of ANY judge’s top three!  Perhaps next time around, we’ll hold back some Random Joy prizes so that we can do just that!  Since I haven’t got prizes for all, I’ll at least give honorable mentions…

il mare oscuro and Madil’s shawl tied for fourth place.

Lyra earned third place

Neibling Shawl Finished is our runner up…

and the winner for Lace Extravaganza is….

International Shawl (fini)!  lacefreak has truly earned this award!