SAQA Auction -- Celebration

SAQA's 2014 online auction is going on NOW. My entry, "Celebration" is included in this week's auction. The price starts at $750 and goes down each day ... if it hasn't been purchased. So, to wait ... or not to wait????

"Celebration" for Sale at SAQA

SAQA's Annual Benefit Auction begins next week!  

This is your chance to own unique art quilts created by some of the world's finest artists.

Starting Monday, September 15, 2014, help support the art quilt movement by bidding on your favorite pieces.

Peg Pennell - "Bubbles"

Phillida Hargreaves - "Forever Car Ride"

Diane English - "Trees Aren't Always Green III"

And then ... here's your chance to own a piece of my artwork.

Celebration

Scroll down about 15 rows to find it.

You can also read more about this piece on my blog HERE.

SAQA’s Benefit Auction

SAQA’s signature fundraising event starts Sept 15!

This is your chance to own beautiful, unique art quilts by some of the world’s finest artists. Plus, your purchases help increase the recognition for art quilts and the artists who make them while supporting SAQA’s exhibitions, publications, and education outreach.

The Benefit Auction is run in three sections for 6 days each, with a special later section accompanying the International Quilt Festival in Houston. A different group of quilts is available for online bidding each week.

Make Mine Lime Green!  - curated by Martha Sielman. Lime green seems to be showing up all over, including in SAQA's Benefit Auction.

 Brooklyn #5 - Heather Dubreuil

 Bike Me - Gail Ramsay

 Modern Circles 3 - Terry Aske

 Joyful Colors - Diane Born

 On the Right Path - Dori Settles

 Trees Aren't Always Green III - Diane English

And then you can find my donation “Celebration” HERE. You have to scroll down about 15 rows.

March Wrap Up

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To see what others have accomplished in March click the Fresh Sewing Day button below.

Celebration -- SAQA Benefit Auction Quilt

I finished my second “fireworks” quilt that measures 12” X 12” and I’m calling it “Celebration.” It will be up for auction with SAQA this fall.

“Yes, they shall sing of the ways of the Lord and joyfully celebrate His mighty acts, for great is the glory of the Lord.” –Amplified Bible

Detail

This piece is made from commercial cotton fabrics cut and fused to a cotton background. Heavily quilted with Superior Thread’s Fantastico polyester thread.

The label on the back.

And now I’m making a “Carpenter’s Wheel” quilt block for our PTQ’s challenge.

Linking to:

Lee’s WIP Wednesday
Esther's Wips On Wednesday
Nina Maria's Off the Wall Friday

Fiesta Fireworks Quilt – All Finished

I think now I can officially call this quilt finished! After starting it at Pigeon Forge and working on it some more when I got home and thinking it was finished, … I decided to cut off the binding, trim the quilt and bind it again. Now I really am finished.

I originally made this quilt for a challenge with the theme CELEBRATION.

It measures 39”X41.” (Oh dear. English teachers, does the period come after the inches symbol or before the inches symbol?) 

It’s made from cotton fabric and overlaid with black tulle with glitter.

Detail

Kirby and Stacy came today and played with Ashton. They helped me with the photo shoot.

“Yes, they shall sing of the ways of the Lord and joyfully celebrate His mighty acts, for great is the glory of the Lord.” –Psalm 138:5 (Amplified Bible)

  

Mountain Heritage Challenge – CELEBRATION

On my design wall …

I’m taking on another challenge to use specific fabric to make a quilt that depicts CELEBRATION. I decided to use a technique by Marilyn Doheney that I learned in a class that I took HERE.

First I sewed together strips of the challenge fabric to make a strata.

Then, using Marilyn’s ruler, I cut the strips into wedges.

I took those wedges and sewed some of them together making a ‘fan’ that I’m hoping will look like fireworks.

Another strata and more wedges produced more design possibilities.

And Amy’s cat Clyde just happened to walk by at the most opportune time!

Linking to
Patchwork Times “Design Wall Monday”
Anything Goes Monday's at Stitch by Stitch
A Round Tuit
Show and Tell Tuesday