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Show Spriagmlh mmm vjim I A Springville woman, Mrs. Lela Sumsion has captured the Sweepstakes blue ribbon and a beautiful trophy for her embroidered em-broidered afghan, judged best in the show in the western district dis-trict ' National Wool contest, which includes the area from Michigan to California. The Afghan also took the sweepstakes ribbon and a trophy tro-phy for the second year in succession at the Utah State Fair last week. one. Some of the embroidery work is her own original design. de-sign. In addition to making af-ghans, af-ghans, Mrs. Sumsion makes beautiful pillows using the afghan af-ghan stitch and contrasting yarn embroidery, for each of her club members for their birthdays. Fractures Wrist ' Craig Hansen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Omar Hansen, suffered suf-fered a fractured wrist in football foot-ball practice last Wednesday. As the winner of the western west-ern district wool contest in which several different knitted and crocheted articles were judged, Mrs. Sumsion will now send her afghan to New York to be judged in the National Needlework contest. All articles had to be made this year. Mrs. Sumsion completed com-pleted her winning afghan in February. On a beautiful oyster white crocheted background, Mrs. Sumsion embroidered an intricate intri-cate pansy design using Flei-sher's Flei-sher's yarn, imported from England. She estimates she has done about fifty afghans since she began crocheting them several years ago as a hobby. During this time thousands of skeins of yarn, the best available, has been worked into these beautiful beau-tiful pieces of handwork. It would be hard to judge which is the most beautiful, so varied are the colors and designs, de-signs, but all appear to be masterpieces, and Mrs. Sum-'sion Sum-'sion can well be proud of each |