the Claire Shaeffer Pattern Award and received $250. The event was held in
conjunction with the 2007 convention of the Ameri- can Sheep Industry
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The Farmer ● March 2007
Minnesota Countryside
Sewing skills bring reward HREE Minnesota women were honored at the 2007 Make It With Wool National Finals and Awards Program held in January in San Antonio. Jean Olson, Woodbury, was named the 2007 national adult winner. She paired cranberry-red Pendleton wool with a classic black pinstriped fabric for her two-piece outfit. She modeled a jacket that was styled like a denim jacket, but she dressed it up with some silver buttons and matching topstitching. She also wore a pair of gau-
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chos that featured a shaped waistband, front slash pockets and hemline cuffs. Olson won an all-expense-paid trip to the national competition, a sheep pelt from the American Sheep Industry Women and a Brother sewing machine from Brother International and Wool Fabric. Alyssa Nelson, Jackson, won first runner-up in the Junior Division. She constructed a spice-colored plaid coat made of 100% wool boucle, a wool gabardine skirt and a slouch-neck shirt.
Nelson’s first runner-up ranking earned her a Singer 9920 sewing machine, a $250 savings bond from The Fabrics Network, a mohair throw from Producers’ Marketing Cooperative and Texas Wool and Mohair, a compact steam iron from Rowenta Inc., the “Creative Serging” book from Palmer/Pletsch Publishing, the Women’s Boutique Pattern Software from Wild Ginger Software and fabric from Britannia, Pendleton or Woolrich. The junior division is open to youth ages 13 to 16.
LITTLE DO THEY KNOW!
ADULT WINNER: Jean Olson, Woodbury, winner of the Adult Division A total of 55 junior and senior finalists representing 29 states modeled their creations at the national competition. Some 947 contestants nationwide entered competitions at the state level and utilized more than 2,889 yards of wool fabric and 286 skeins of yarn to create their garments. Sheilina Sperry, Center City, received the Claire Shaeffer Pattern Award and received $250. The event was held in conjunction with the 2007 convention of the American Sheep Industry Association and National Lamb Feeders Association.
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