Members of the Thread Artist Guild® were given a challenge to create a piece of artwork to go with the theme of "Axioms, Idioms and Adages".
Our Award Panel (Marianne Alexander, Tammy Martin, Debi McCarthy-Beckett, Jan Nethercutt, and Mary Robinson were shown anonymous
pictures and asked to award points to each picture for keeping with Theme, Neatness of work, Originality, Construction, and Presentation. 
Then the points were tallied to determine the winner.  A big thank you goes out to our Award Panelists for sharing with us their knowledge,
expertise and time to review the entries.

We have terrific entries and our Award Panel all said the entries were so good they had a very difficult time in awarding their points!
Thank you to all the members who entered...you are all truly fantastic artists!

It is with great pleasure that I am able to announce:

Winner of the 2007 Thread Artist Guild® Annual Award Challenge!
Marge Wiese for her entry titled "Earl E. Burd"

Early Bird (Earl E. Burd) Catches the Worm by Marge Wiese

Honarable Mention Awards go to:

"If Pigs Could Fly" by Viky Petermann

"On a Wing and a Prayer" by Paula McHenry

Other Entries (in no particular order) included:

"There's No Such Thing Like a Free Lunch" by Mary Terry

"The Early Bird Gets the Worm BUT the Second Mouse Gets the Cheese" by Heather Hamilton

"On Pins and Needles" by Kelly Gartman

"Kick the Bucket" (CLICK HERE TO SEE EXTRA PICTURE OF VIEW FROM THE TOP) by Alison Sayers

"Head Over Heels" by Gayle Brindley

"Under the Weather" (shown with Wet Behind the Ears) by Anita Schaeder

"Don't Let the Cat Out of the Bag" by Lita Ashley

"A Little Birdie Told Me To Do It" by Phyllis Swanson

Each year one of our Award Panelists volunteers to create an exhibition piece for our award.  This year our Display Exhibition Piece is by Jan Nethercutt:

Getting my "Ducks in a Row"

Past Award Winners:

2006 Award