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Fellows’ judging report, Virtual Annual Competition, 26 April 2025

Filed as “Fellows Virtual Judging April 2025”.

The Society’s other copy of this judging, headed “CSCL Virtual Annual Competition”, which prints no addressee, no list of those present and no call to order, adds that Lauch did not judge his entries, and names the belt the Floral Guitar Strap: Virtual Annual Competition, 2025: the judges’ letter on the entries.

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Report for Judging
Virtual Annual Competition
April 26, 20245 in Hamilton at 8 pm

To the Council of Fellows -Regarding Judging the 2025 Annual Virtual/Photo Competition

Present: Lauch, Sean,
Call to Order at 8:05 pm

The Virtual Annual Competition was opened a week late on April 8 due to a massive Ice Storm and power
outage and closed April 24, 2024. Sean& Lauch on April 26, 2024 to discuss and judge 13 entries submitted by
Three General Members, and One Fellow.

The judges were prepared to give Annual and Biennial Awards. To that end ten Craft Ribbons, one Salon
Ribbon and 5 monetary prizes were given.

The high quality of the entries allowed the Judges to give out Best in Show - $50, Muma Award for
Tooling and Colouring - $50, and Best General Member - $50 and a Salon Ribbon to Greg Belenky for his Lady
Godiva. Greg also was awarded 2 Craft Ribbons for Lady Godiva and Art Nouveau Wallet

Julien Jans received a Craft Ribbons for his Sturgeon Scutes Bracelet. Julien's Ripple Watch Strap earned
a Craft Ribbon.

Best Belt in Honour of Jack Meharg - $50 and a Craft Ribbon went to Bob Richardson for his Guitar
Strap, he also received 2 Craft Ribbons for Western Style Belt and Octagon Box

Lauch Harrison received 3 Craft Ribbons for Black Billfold, Tea Box w/Toadstools and Hinged Box

Scoring as follows out of 10

Lady Godiva · 10 · Greg Belenky · salon · craft · Stunning Epic Work
Art Nouveau Wallet · 9.5 · Greg Belenky · craft · Great Colour work
Black Billfold · 9.0 · Lauch Harrison · craft · Excellent job on rolled edges very neat stitching
Tea Box Toadstool · 8.0 · Lauch Harrison · craft · Well executed design
Hinged Box · 8.0 · Lauch Harrison · craft · Great Colour work excellent block dye very neat hinge
Western Style Belt · 7.0 · Bob Richardson · craft · Large scope with challenging contrast thread good hand stitching
Floral Guitar Strap · 7.0 · Bob Richardson · craft · Very good Carving background was unbalnced near the Initials
Octagon Box · 6.0 · Bob Richardson · craft · Amibitious Stitching work
Sturgeon Scutes · 6.0 · Julien Jans · craft · Creative use of these tough scutes
Ripple Watch Strap · 6.0 · Julien Jans · craft · Stitched border could have been closer to edge

As the fifth iteration of the Virtual Annual not all the photos are showing the aspects, quality and telling a story.
The images were smaller with less detail and it is hard to Judge. We were happy to give monetary awards to well
deserved pieces and their makers.

Thanks
Lauch Harrison FCSCL
and Sean Dalgetty FCSCL

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Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft. (2025, April 26). Fellows’ judging report, Virtual Annual Competition, 26 April 2025 [Report]. Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft Archive. https://canadianleathercraft.org/documents/document-archive/judging-reports/fellows-virtual-judging-april-2025/

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    Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft (2025) Fellows’ judging report, Virtual Annual Competition, 26 April 2025 [Report]. Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft Archive. Available at: https://canadianleathercraft.org/documents/document-archive/judging-reports/fellows-virtual-judging-april-2025/.

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    @misc{cscl2025fellowsvirtualjudgingapr,
  title        = {{Fellows’ judging report, Virtual Annual Competition, 26 April 2025}},
  author       = {{Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft}},
  howpublished = {Report},
  year         = {2025},
  month        = apr,
  date         = {2025-04-26},
  publisher    = {Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft},
  note         = {Held in the Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft Archive},
  language     = {english},
  url          = {https://canadianleathercraft.org/documents/document-archive/judging-reports/fellows-virtual-judging-april-2025/}
}

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