814-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 11, 1997 Make-It-With-Wool LOU ANN GOOD Lancaster Farming Staff HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) An eye-catching fashion show held at the Keystone International Livestock Exposition (KILE) Sun day did more than stop area pedest rian traffic. Onlookers saw the amazingly versatility of wool fabrics in vastly different textures, patterns, and finishes. Outfits made from wool T-shirt knits, challis, crepe, beav er, tweed, and the more familiar Woolrich and Pendleton wools showed that wool is truely a mira cle fiber for fine tailoring and crea tive design. Participants in the Make-It- Yourself-With-Wool (MIYWW) contest modeled outfits that they had spent months sewing for the event Garments were judged on having a professional, finished look with 60 percent of the score based on fashion and 40 percent on construction. Four divisions were held for the 15 participants. Although winners were selected from each category, the Pennsylvania MIYWW can afford to send only one contestant to the national convention in Reno, Nev. Heidi Shroyk, junior winner, will receive the expense-paid trip. Heidi sewed a navy blue dress with Pam Marburgerof Espyvllle stitched nine Items to win the adult title In the Make-K-With-Wool contest held at KILE. a checked navy blue and red short cropped jacket. If there is enough funding, Michelle Comman, senior division winner, will also receive an expense-paid trip. Michelle stitched navy pants with a coordi nating plaid jacket in navy and sand colors. Michelle is from Car lisle and attends Penn State study ing dairy and animal science. Preteen winner was Susanna Lyden of Industry and Elisa Grieco was runner-up. Runner-up in the junior division was Janelle Hoover of Denver. With the same dark green wool dress trimmed with black velvet collar and cuffs, Janelle had been a state finalist in the 4-H Fashion Revue. Pam Marburger, defending state champion of the adult division, returned this year with a stunning interchangeable wardrobe of nine pieces. A dairy farm wife and mother of two daughters from Crawford County, Pam used wool fabric pre sented to her for winning last year’s state competition. Her interchangeable wardrobe was built around navy blue tailored wool pants with a coordinating plaid jacket, a reversible vest, a skirt, wool-grain knit T-shirt top, and a red Woolrich coat with matching hat. She accessorized her Is More Than Fashion Show outfit with a matching scrunchie for her hair and a fabric tote bag. Although Pam will not be traveling to the national competi tion, she will still compete. Pam will send professional photo graphs to the national MIYWW headquarters, where her garments will be judged against those from adult winners in other states. Senior winner is Michelle Cornman. “I’m shooting for the national title. Last year I entered the state contest for the first time and won, but I did not have time to send pro fessional photographs to national competition. I needed to win at the state level again to enter national competition,” Pam said. Runner-up in the adult division M Beaver County has the highest percentage of winners at the Make-lt-Wlth-Wool contest. From left are Melissa Lyden, Susanna Lyden, pre-teen winner; Joan Klein, runnerup in the adult division; and Elisa Grleco, runner-up in the pre-teen division. In the Make-tt-Wlth-Wool competition, Heidi Shroyk, right, wins the state Junior title and receives an expense paid trip to national competition. Junior runner-up Is Janel le Hoover. was Joan Klein of Darlington, who Judges were Bert Antram, Cin with her husband, George, raises dy Dlugolecki, and Marie Keiffer. purebred Herefords. Joan modeled State directors are Jodell Antram a red wool suit and Barbara Ann Shaffer.
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