The Sugar Grove Sunshine 4-H club sponsored its annual Design Extraordinaire Competition at the Dallas Center Memorial Hall Dec. 27, with this year’s emphasis on clothing.
Nine teams registered, with seven competing for top honors.
Coordinators for the event were Alexis Evens and Miranda Ginn of Grimes, Mina Hersch of Dallas Center and Heavenly Hughes of DeSoto. Assistant coordinators were Emma Foley of Dallas Center and Lorna Baldner Grow of Dallas Center, Sugar Grove Sunshine Leader. Many parents also helped.
Participants received instructions and rules as well as a secret element — pockets — that they had to include in their design. Through the course of the three-hour designing process, they could create whatever they wished as long as it used fabric and notions from on site.
The wide variety of projects included objects such as a table runner, purses, wreath hanging, chair cushion and caddy and a stuffed animal. The design room was a veritable hum of sewing machines as the teams conversed and visitors observed the progress.
Judges were Adel art teacher Morgan Ostrander of DeSoto, graduate student Ellen Shank of Robesonia, Pa., and elementary school teacher Zoe Shank of Colorado Springs, Colo. All three judges were former Dallas County 4-H members.
Event sponsors were the Raccoon Valley Bank of Dallas Center and Ben’s Five and Dime of Perry owners Jan and Jay Pattee.
