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Sternenregen / starshower from quilts und mehr

Diesen Quilt habe ich für die Ausschreibung von SAQA "Space" genäht. Leider wurde er nicht angenommen. Dafür hängt er nun bei mir im Wohnzimmer und er gefällt mir sehr gut und obwohl ich ihn genäht habe, sehe ich immer wieder spezielle Details, die mir gefallen

added by Edith Bieri-Hanselmann 5 months ago. under quilts; quilt , saqa

Emergence book project from Joy in Cloth

Every other year the Oregon region of SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) organizes a traveling show. It is open to members of our local region and is always juried. In 2020 when it was time to start on the new show for 2021-2023, covid was rampant. Our committee members met on Zoom and pondered what to do since many galleries were closed. We decided to do a book instead.

Our goal was to have members juried in on the strength of their previous work. The chosen artists would create a new piece to be featured in the book since we ...

added by Laura Jaszkowski 6 months ago. under art quilt , emergence , emergence: fiber art from concept to stitch , saqa

Just Because from The Snarky Quilter

Thanks to SAQA’s Material Matters seminar for its members, I’ve had a good time viewing videos and websites that feature innovative materials. I love the idea of wearable art, and the shows are certainly more entertaining than the usual art quilt show.

Somehow the women’s costumes seem to focus on hard to walk in and bondage type outfits, but there’s tons of inventive use of materials in this World of Wearable Art Show highlights video. Of course the outfits are probably best suited to Cirque du Soleil performers.

High couture by Iris van Herpen is modeled ...

added by snarkyquilter 1 year ago. under commentary , inspiration , iris van herpen , saqa , techniques , tim harding , wearable art , world of wearable art (Comments)

Unnatural Fabrics from The Snarky Quilter

I don’t know if that’s the proper term for fabrics that aren’t made from naturally derived materials such as cotton and linen. I don’t like the term man made, with its inherent bias, but fabrics developed from polyester often are called that. Here I’m talking about tyvek, evolon, lutrador, and the like. Why am I talking about them? A recent SAQA seminar on such fabrics reminded me of my own efforts to use such stuff.

Part of the seminar was a video conversation with Shannon Conley, an artist who cheerfully tackles all sorts of three ...

added by snarkyquilter 1 year, 1 month ago. under art quilts , commentary , evolon , pellon tracing cloth , polyester fabrics , saqa , techniques , tyvek , unconventional materials (Comments)

2022 SAQA Benefit Auction Donations from Bits and Stitches

I had another UFO that just wouldn't work for me so I decided to cut it into 4" squares and see if I might be able to create a 12x12" piece to donate to the SAQA Benefit Auction that will take place September 9 through October. All the pieces are 12x12. They will be divided into 3 groups with prices starting at $750 or $1,000 and decrease to $100 throughout each week Studio Art Quilt Associates, SAQA, is an international organization to promote quilting as fine art.

"Impromptu" donation was finished

in time for the 2022 Auction.

"Variation-2 ...

added by Mary Ann Littlejohn 1 year, 7 months ago. under art quilt , auction , saqa

Prism Play: A Full Spectrum of Art Quilts from Goer

I am so pleased to share that a recent project I worked on is available to order now. As a member of the Northern California/Northern Nevada SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) Region, I had the pleasure of working with Deb Cashatt to create the 134 page catalog for the region's newest exhibition, Prism Play.

Cover design by Deb Cashatt. Cover artwork: Sherri Lipman McCauley, Cara Gulati, Lyla J. Messinger, Sandra Wagner, Anne Burns Johnson, Robin White Koenig, Mel Beach, Susan Gibson Kelly, Libby Williamson, Martha W. Ginn, Aileyn Renli Ecob, Helene Hein.

WIN-WIN-Wind Energy by Mel Beach.

Each ...

added by sarah 1 year, 10 months ago. under n.ca , n.nv saqa , prism play , quilting , saqa , saqa exhibition , saqa regional exhibition (Comments)

Making my cicada quilt, Cicadence, step by step from Splendiferous

Cicadence, 2020, 24 x 24 inches

Here’s what I started with: packet with fat quarter of this fabric, and a sheet inside with the rules. Rules: must use recognizable amount of challenge fabric, no bigger than 24 x 24, and must have a wing in it somewhere. The challenge was supposed to be for 2020, but we know how that went. I had already started it, so I kept going, and hid the finished quilt for almost an entire year. Since it was made in 2020, I had no idea about Brood X hatching this year, and what a ...

added by wlstarn 1 year, 10 months ago. under 3d fiber art , bug quilt , cicada , contemporary fiber artists of louisiana , fiber art , kaffe fassett , modern quilt guild , saqa , textile art

Jenny Anydots from Splendiferous

A quilt shop about an hour and 45 minutes north of me hosts an annual fabric challenge, with gift certificates to the store as prizes. Here’s the challenge packet. Must use Kaffe Fassett Tiddlywinks fabric in blue, finish 24" square or smaller, and have a face on it

Started with cat photo, and edited in photoshop to have smaller value range. Printed out grayscale photo to 24" square size on several sheets of paper, and taped together.

selected fabrics and arranged in value order. All Kaffe Fassett.

made a value scale from a strip of background

Outlined and numbered ...

added by wlstarn 1 year, 10 months ago. under art quilt , cat quilts , cats , challenge quilt , contemporary fiber artists of louisiana , fused applique , kaffe fassett , machine quilting , modern quilt guild , quilt , saqa , threadwork

Prism Play: Connections from Goer

I have finished and submitted to my first SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) exhibition. The Northern California/Northern Nevada region issued a call last summer for a juried regional exhibition entitled Prism Play. From the start I loved the vision for this exhibition. The quilts are all required to be 15" wide by 45" long and monochromatic, following one of the color cards from Joen Wolfrom's Ultimate 3-in-1 Color Tool. The selected quilts will hang in multiple full color spectrum groupings during the exhibition.

In phase one we each signed up for a color (or colors) and were assigned ...

added by sarah 2 years, 2 months ago. under 3-in-1 color tool , faced binding , finished quilt , improv quilt , monochromatic , planned improv , prism play , quilting , saqa , walking foot quilting (Comments)

Nu har hösten stormat in from Veriquilt

Som ni märker så har jag bytt layout på min blogg och det märkliga var att under arbetet fann jag en massa kommentarer till mina inlägg, kommentarer som jag aldrig hade sett. Det var ju både snopet och glädjande, snopet eftersom jag aldrig har svarat på frågor som ställts. Jag skall försöka att gå igenom inläggen och se om jag kan svara på några inlägg.

Jag har skickat in en liten kvilt till SAQAs (Studio Art Quilt Associates) Trunk Show som kommer att pågå under två år. Inspiration till kvilten fick jag när jag deltog i facebookgruppen Dogma-boderier. Jag har ...

added by Vera Holmgren 2 years, 6 months ago. under art quilt , art quilt circle , broderi , dogmabroderi , fritt broderi , färdiga quiltar , inspiration , off the wall friday , off the wall fridays , saqa , swedish - danish challenge , utställning

Lite vilsen from Veriquilt

Jag har precis installerat en ny PC och just nu håller all data på att föras över från den gamla till den nya. Det är nio år sedan jag bytte dator, Supporten trodde nog de hörde fel när jag ringde! Det skall gå att använda datorn medan filöverföringen sker så jag jobbar vidare men känner mig lite vilsen eftersom jag varken hittar foton eller epost just nu.

SAQA Benefit Auction äger rum 10 sep - 3 okt. Jag har bidragit med ett verk, det är nog femte eller sjätte gången jag deltar men förra årets bidrag är fortfarande inte sålt. Hoppas ...

added by Vera Holmgren 2 years, 7 months ago. under fabric fusion , färdiga quiltar , off the wall friday , saqa , utställning , övrigt

På turné from Veriquilt

Nu är det klart att SAQAs utställning Wide Horizons VII kommer att visas den 16 - 19 sep på European Patchwork Meeting i Frankrike, utställningen skulle egentligen ha visats förra året men pandemin gjorde att det sköts upp. Min kvilt At the Border är med på utställningen och enligt planerna skall hela utställningen sedan skickas vidare till USA där den under år 2022 kommer att visas först i Florida och sedan på AOS (American Quilters Society) QuiltWeek i Missouri, Kentucky och Michigan.

Jag visade At the Border på utställningen i Järnboden, kvilten är utförd med screentryck på handfärgade tyger och den ...

added by Vera Holmgren 2 years, 9 months ago. under art quilt , breakdown printing , deconstructed screenprinting , färdiga quiltar , off the wall friday , procion mx , saqa , screenprint , thermoscreen , utställning

Något helt annorlunda from Veriquilt

Jag hade tänkt att ta en paus från alla utmaningar nu när SAQAs 100 days var avslutade men frestelsen blev för stor. Nu pågår SAQA - Jump into June och på den vägen är det. Jag bestämde mig för att göra något helt annorlunda och improviserat à la Maria Shell. Började i stor stil med svart/vita remsor, det svarta var handfärgat i två omgångar men fick inte det djup jag hade önskat. Nu blev det bra ändå, det fungerar här annars hade jag färgat det en tredje gång, någon har sagt att Nancy Crow alltid färgar sina tyger tre gånger ...

added by Vera Holmgren 2 years, 10 months ago. under art quilt , art quilt circle , art quilt-cirkel , konst , mönster , off the wall friday , planerade projekt , procion mx , saqa , utställning

Fireplace from quilts und mehr

Hier ist er nun fertig und bereits auf dem Weg in die USA. Bin gespannt, ob er dann im September verkauft wird.

Here it is and already on its way to the USA. I am wondering if in September it will be sold.

Fireplace 12 x 12", May 2021

added by Edith Bieri-Hanselmann 2 years, 10 months ago. under benefit auction , saqa

2020 Roundup from Splendiferous

In My Mind's Eye, 20 x 20 inches

Woven Rainbow (pieced in 2019, quilted in 2020). 60 x 60 inches

What's Your Excuse? 33 x 37 inches

Rainbow Leaves (SAQA Benefit Auction donation) 12 x 12 inches

Cicadence 24 x 24 inches

The Very Grungy Caterpillar, 32 x 46 inches

Baby Quilt 30 x 41 inches

added by wlstarn 2 years, 10 months ago. under art quilt , artivism , black lives matter , cicada , coronavirus , fiber art , human rights , landscape , luna moth , rainbow , saqa

habe gewählt / did choose from quilts und mehr

Habe mich für den dunkel roten Stoff entschieden.

I decided to take the dark red fabric.

und gequiltet wird in Kreisen mit dem Holoshimmer Faden

and quilted with the Holoshimmer thread

added by Edith Bieri-Hanselmann 2 years, 10 months ago. under benefit auction , saqa

Hintergrund / back from quilts und mehr

Welchen Hintergrund soll ich für dieses Stück verwenden?

Which back shall I use for this piece?

added by Edith Bieri-Hanselmann 2 years, 10 months ago. under benefit auction , saqa

SAQA Benefit Auction from quilts und mehr

Mit den anderen Resten werde ich einen Quilt nähen für die SAQA Benefit Auction. Hier die ersten Schritte dazu.

With the other scraps I want to sew a quilt for the SAQA Benefit auction. Here you can see the first steps to it.

added by Edith Bieri-Hanselmann 2 years, 10 months ago. under benefit auction , saqa

Red Rock Sunrise - SAQA Benefit Auction from From Edge 2 Edge

I had a lot of fun this year creating my 12 x 12 inch SAQA Benefit Auction piece. These little pieces always take more time than I think they will. The main reason is that I still go through a full design and critique process like I would when creating a larger piece.

For this piece I went back into my stash of fabrics that were either digital or inkjet prints. I was happy to realized that the mountain fabric I had purchased was in the same color scheme as my own design I had printed at Spoonflower several years ...

added 2 years, 11 months ago. under art quilt , auction , derwent , inktense , machine quilting , saqa , spoonflower (Comments)

Det kunde ha blivit katastrof from Veriquilt

Mitt verk Acorn/Ekollon antogs av juryn till SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) Virtual Gallery Plurality of Voices. Juryn bestod av Claire Passmore och Geneviève Attinger, detta är andra gången jag fick ett verk antaget, jag har ett porträtt tidigare i No Limits.

Acorn/Ekollon 30 x 30 cm

Swedish - Danish Challenge fortsätter, det är bara fyra bilder kvar att göra sedan har vi gjort 18 st 15 cm x 15 cm var.

Swedish - Danish Challenge 13/18

Jag har också tänkt att delta i SAQA Europe & Middle East projekt Orientexpressen. Varje deltagare skall göra en panel 25 cm x ...

added by Vera Holmgren 2 years, 11 months ago. under applikation , art quilt , art quilt-cirkel , broderi , collage , off the wall friday , planerade projekt , saqa , swedish - danish challenge , utställning

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