This doily had some interesting stitches to accomplish. The lateral, almost sideways stitches in the center and outer center rings required working behind a stitch and doing some kind of prestidigitation to get it to come out as it should. The effect is truly genius, though it does require hook and thread dexterity.

I'm thinking that I'll enter this doily in one my local fairs this year. I may give the Puyallup Fair another chance, since I work less than half a mile away from the fairgrounds, I may as well enter something. However, I'm more tempted to give the Evergreen State Fair a try to see how their judge scores my work. I'm secretly and silently hoping that the Puyallup Fair judge has been replaced!