Judy Hall earns multiple awards at 2021 Sydney Royal Easter Show

After a successful stint in the 2019 competition, this year Judy was presented with an Award of Excellence and several blue and red ribbons.

"I'm extremely proud of her achievements," Ian Newton, Judy's husband, said.

If taking the time to thread hundreds of various intricate stitches wasn't challenging enough, Judy has been hand-drawing the templates for her Native American works.

"The Native American designs are my hand-drawn designs, they're not pre-printed. I have a passion for them," she said.

"My duck and leopard tapestry were already a printed canvas, and you would need a magnifying glass to see all of my petit-point stitches."

To create a tapestry, it takes Mrs Hall approximately two to three months, should there be no distractions.

While she's always had a crafty bone in her body, her tapestry and painting skills weren't fine tuned until her daughter set her on the path she now walks.

"It was a joint interest with my daughter, she got me going with it in New Orleans. I like to enter the shows because that's where I challenge myself in regards to skill," Judy said.

"I think I have always been crafty and I've really developed it. I love to do paintings as well as the tapestries.

"I've got my paintings all over the place, I've stopped counting but I probably have about 30 paintings. Tapestries, I have done 75 ornaments for Christmas, then I have all the Faberge eggs, and then the bigger items are probably around the twenty or thirty mark.

"I won't be stopping anytime soon. It's fun to me, I enjoy doing it. The only thing that would impact it is eyesight and mine is perfectly fine."

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