Members of the Thread Artist Guild® were given a challenge to create a piece of artwork to go with the theme of "Fairytale Character".
Our Award Panel (Marianne Alexander, Berta Hesen-Minten, Debi McCarthy-Beckett, Bobbie Ripperger, and Nadine Murat-Thevenot)
were shown anonymous pictures and asked to award points to each picture.  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 First Thread Artist Guild® Annual Award Challenge!
Gayle Brindley for her entry titled "The Marriage of King Arthur"

Honarable Mention Awards go to:

Jan Nethercutt for her entry titled "East o' the Sun - West o' the Moon - An old Norwegian fairytale"

Heather Hamilton for her entry titled ""Aladdin" Bear...accompanied by his magic carpet and Genie Bear!"

A Special Recognition Certificate will go to:

Lita Ashley - The Littlest Mermaid

Other Entries (in no particular order) included:

Sharon Hawkes - Rumpelstiltskin

Liza Adams - Puss 'n' Boots

Charlotte Des Roches - Pooh Bear & Honey Pot

Anita Schaeder - “The Angel” by Danish author H. C. Andersen

Lisa Miller - The Frog Prince

Marlene Hatgistamatakis - The Littlest Mermaid - Arabear

Cheryl Jackson - "Gruffie" the troll from "Billy Goat's Gruff"

Phyllis Swanson - Puss 'n' Boots

Tammy Martin - "The Polar Bear King: East of the Sun and West of the Moon"

Bonnie Homan - Snow White

Mary Robinson - "Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen

Melissa Hinkle - Flopsy, Peter Rabbit's little sister

Robyn Christensen - Puss 'n' Boots

Display Only Exhibition Piece:

Marianne Alexander - Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titania, Bottom, and Puck