This summer, 11-year-old Shelyssa Theel didn't have time to be bored.

She was too busy making beads, sun catchers, tote bags, a quilt, a blanket, a latch-hook rug

and 30 other projects to exhibit at 4-H Achievement Days at the Central States Fair.

It took the Rapid City girl two months to complete 36 exhibits to enter in the judging process

Thursday.

A pink and black quilt is the exhibit Shelyssa is most proud of because she spent the most time

on it and likes the pattern.

"Walking in the store, I saw those and thought it would make a cool quilt," she said.

Brenda Biberdorf, family and consumer-science Extension educator, said 134 kids participated in

the Achievement Days on Thursday, and 1,200 exhibits were entered. There were about 70

project categories and 24 judges.

Shelyssa said she gets her ideas from shopping at such stores as Hobby Lobby and works on

the projects she thinks will be "cool" when they are completed.

And even though Shelyssa's mom doesn't know where she is going to put all the exhibits at

home, Shelyssa plans to find a use for everything.

"I feel good because I did so many," she said. "A lot of kids my age can't do that kind of stuff."