April/May - SWI Federation Show Prep and competition

This year the Scottish Women's Institute (SWI) Federation Show was in May and I had been asked to do the "flower arranging" part of the community table for the Caddonfoot WI. The theme of the community tables this year was blue and yellow.

There are plenty of yellow flowers available at that time of year but finding blue flowers was much more difficult than I thought.

In April, I did a "practice-run" to show the Caddonfoot WI the sort of thing I had in mind. For this arrangement I just used supermarket flowers. I did two basket arrangements so that Caddonfoot members could choose between the two baskets (round/square).

 

For the show in May, I used a combination of supermarket flowers, fresh picked greenery from a friend's garden and a few flowers from a florists.

Caddonfoot Community Table

I really enjoyed putting the flower arrangements together and I think the basket was a great way to make it a little unusual. The Caddonfoot community table came 2nd out of 5 entries which was our best ever result.


As well as doing the flowers for the community table, I also entered four of the competitions - spring photograph, item of jewellery, pencil drawing, and painting.

I got 3rd prize for both the photo and the pencil drawing.

The next Federation Show is in two years time and I'm looking forward to taking part again.

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