Make It With Wool Contest

Days

OBJECTIVES

To promote the beauty and versatility of wool fabrics, fibers and yarns.
To encourage personal creativity in sewing, knitting, crocheting, or felting with wool fabrics, fibers and yarns.
To recognize creative skills.
To develop life skills including:
- being responsible for one’s self
- being a good sport
- accepting judges decisions
- learning about and appreciating diversity

Completed Entry Form (please send all wool samples, check made to MIWW, and form to district director)
$15 entry fee for each category entered
Three 5″x5″ samples of each wool used or three 36″ lengths of each yarn used

Juniors, Seniors and Adults may enter:
- One-piece garment: Dress, jumper, outerwear jacket, coat or cape
- Two-piece outfit: Coat, jacket, cape, blouse/shirt, vest or sweater WITH dress, jumper, skirt, pants or shorts
- Ensemble: 3 or more garments worn together at one time: Coat, jacket, cape, blouse/shirt, vest and/or sweater WITH dress, jumper, skirt, pants or shorts
Preteens may enter:
- Dress, jumper, skirt, pants, shorts, vest, sweater, shirt/blouse, jacket or a combination of garments
All garments must have been completed after January 1 of competition year
Participants must sew, knit, crochet or felt all garments
- They may spin their own yarn and weave their own fabric
- They may receive instruction and advice from parents, teachers or advisor

Made for Others
- Garments made for another person. The recipient must model the garment and the sewer must answer the judges’ questions
  - Categories are the same as the Garment
Wearable Accessory
- Items worn to compliment a garment or outfit
  - purse, hat, gloves/mittens, belt, tie, pin, scarf or other items
Wool Quilt, Other Wool Art and Non-Wearables
- Quilts and Wall hangings
  - Quilt top fiber content must be at least 60% wool
  - Batting must be 60% wool
  - Backing must be 60% natural fiber (cotton, wool, silk, or linen)
- Afghans
  - yarn must be at least 60% wool

100% wool or wool blends containing a minimum of 60% wool or specialty wool fiber must be used for each fashion fabric, fiber or yarn
- Specialty wool fibers include alpaca, angora, camel, cashmere, llama, mohair
Garment body (back, front and sleeves) must be made from wool or wool-blend fabric. When these pieces-back, front, sleeves-are joined together, a wearable garment is created.
- Vests may have the back made from a non-wool fabric when vest is worn with a suit or a sport coat or blazer. The back must be made from wool fabric if the vest is worn alone with pants, skirt and/or outer-wear coat/jacket
- Trims, lace or other open-weave or decorative fabrics not meeting the 60% wool fiber minimum, must not completely cover nor replace any portion of the major garment sections-back, front, sleeves.
- Trims, facing, linings, interfacings and underlining may be from fabrics other than wool or wool blends
- Hand-spun yarns and/or hand woven fabrics may be used and must meet above criteria