2025 Bobbie Pilling and Golden Needle Awards

Bobbie Pilling Award

This annual award, established to honor a treasure of EGA, a longtime supporter and former national president, Barbara (Bobbie) Pilling, is presented to an EGA member who has “gone outside the box” with an original piece of needlework that shows personal growth and artistic merit.

Golden Needle Awards

The theme for the 2025 Golden Needle Awards was Going to the Faire, a nod to the theme the 2025 National Seminar is using this fall in Dallas, TX: Needlework Faire. It can be interpreted in many ways—from a state fair to a book fair, a memory or pure imagination, whatever sparks your creativity.