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Monthly Challenge

How it works

A challenge is set each month.

The subject of the Monthly Challenge can be found on the Club Calendar page.

Entries for the challenge need to be displayed on the competition table on the due date. Each club member is given a wooden counter which they use to vote for the entry they think is best.

Points are awarded and the person with the most points accumulated over the year receives a small prize at the Christmas meeting.

Points are awarded as follows:  1st gets 4pts, 2nd gets 3pts, 3rd gets 2pts and every other entry gets 1pt. This way a person entering gets a point rather than getting nothing which is the same as someone who doesn't enter.

July 2023

The challenge was a Multi-Axis Form

There were just three entries.

1st   Brian Wods

2nd   David Booth

3rd   Tony Harding


May 2023

The challenge for May (to be presented at meeting on 17th May) is a Bird Feeder.

April 2023

The challenge for April was "a form with added texture and or colour".

Four entries were received and we had some of the closest scoring I have known - only one vote separating all four entries.  That meant the places were shared; two tied equal first with 5 votes and two tied equal third with 4 votes.

Alan Smith (multi-coloured bud vase) and Paul Ellis (beaded, ebonised and gold gilded bowl) shared first place and Tony Harding (ebonised platter with coloured leaves) and David Booth (Bowl with decorative features) shared third place.

Well done to everyone for taking part.

March 2023

1st    Paul Ellis...Bowl of fruit

2nd    Nick Harrison...Apple

3rd=    Alan Smith...Yew Apple

3rd=    Tony Harding...Coloured Apple

November 2022

Something using the wooden rings supplied by Steve Heeley 

To be judged on 21st December 2022

October 2022

A time piece.  

1st. Alan Smith. Red dotted clock and balancing clock.
2nd. Paul Ellis. Pocket 'fob' watch
3rd=  Danny Gallacher. Clock on pedestal
3rd=  Tony Harding.  Time hurries past

September 2022

Something to be worn by a man or woman.

Results

Joint First: Nick White and Paul Bellamy

Joint Second: David Winter and Brian Wood

Third: Jane Russell

August 2022

An item with colour and/or texture.

Judged at the meeting on 7 September 2022.

Results

1st...Alan Smith

Joint 2nd...Nick Harrison and Brian Wood

Sorry! No photoraph.

July 2022

Turn a one twelfth scale item for a dolls house.

May 2022

To be judged 1st June 2022

A disaster re-worked.

1st equal - Tony Harding

1st equal - Brian Wood

Sorry, no photograph.

April 2022

To be judged 4th May 2022

Something a child might buy at a craft fair.

First Place - Paul Ellis and the Viking

Second Place - Jane Russell with a Fairy House Lidded Pot

Third Place - Peter Hollis with a YoYo

April 2022 Competition Entries
April 2022 Competition Entries

March 2022

Judged 6 April 2022

A string holder/dispenser.

1st  Brian Wood

2nd  Tony Harding

3rd  Alan Smith

Other contributors were Paul Ellis and Danny Gallacher.

Competition Entries 2 March 2022
Competition Entries 2 March 2022

February 2022

Judged Wednesday 2 March 2022.

Turn a wooden item that incorporates something from the recycling bin. This must be aluminium, glass, plastic or cardboard.

No restrictions on size as long as it fits on the table.

1st  Paul Ellis - Dragonfly

2nd  Peter Hollis - Table lamp

3rd  Tony Harding - Pin cushion

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