Volunteers needed for SAQA Booth at Original Sewing and Quilt Expo in Fort Worth

SAQA Texas!  We need your help!

The quilts from SAQA's current "Deux" exhibit will be displayed at the Original Sewing and Quilt Expo in Fort Worth.  SAQA will have a booth, and would like to staff it with Texas SAQA members.

The Expo is on October 17, 18 and 19 in at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth. We'll work in three hour shifts selling books and answering questions about Art Quilts.  It is sure to be a good time!

If you work a shift, you'll get in free for that day.  However, you will have to pay parking, which the Expo site states will be between $8 to $10 per day.  I will be there pretty much the whole time, and anyone who wishes to be there the entire day as well can park at my house in Fort Worth and ride with me.

If you can help, contact Heather Pregger at heatherpregger@sbcglobal.net

Deux Art Quilt Exhibit Get-Together - Friday October 18 a7 10:15

The SAQA special exhibit "Deux: Two Ideas, Two Inspirations, Two Complementary Quilts" will be shown right here in our area!

Deborah Boschert is organizing an outing to view the exhibit and share some time together. The exhibit is part of the Sewing and Quilt Expo at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth on October 17, 18 and 19.

The get-together will be Friday, October 18. Please meet in the Deux exhibit at 10:15 am. This will give us time to park, enter the show and find our way to the exhibit. We'll see the exhibit all together and have some time to talk about the art quilts included. After, we can see more of the expo together or independently, then let's meet up for lunch in the food court area of the expo. We should be able to grab a table to share.

Please feel free to bring your friends! This get-together is not exclusively for SAQA members.

You can buy tickets online ahead of time for $8 plus $3 processing fee. Or $10 at the door. There is also an option for the driver to get in free if she carpools with two other people who pay $10 at the door. http://www.sewingexpo.com/FortWorthTX/TicketsPricing.aspx

Please RSVP to Deborah Boschert, just so we know who to look for! Feel free to let Deborah know if you have any questions or suggestions. Her email is Deborah@DeborahsStudio.com

Deux Art Quilt Exhibit Get-Together

Friday, October 18 at 10:15 am

Will Rogers Memorial Center, Amon Carter Exhibits Building

3401 W Lancaster Ave, Fort Worth

You can see more about the exhibit on the SAQA website here.

http://www.saqa.com/store.php?cat=37

More about the Sewing Expo here. (Including classes and other info.)

http://www.sewingexpo.com/FortWorthTX.aspx

SAQA Member Salli McQuiad to Show at Mossrock Gallery October 5 - 31

SAQA Texas Retreat at Great Expecations Creativity Center

16 members of SAQA Texas met at the Great Expectations Creativity Center in LaGrange, Texas, last weekend to work on entries for our upcoming show,A Texas Experience.  And it's a cliche, but a great time was had by all.  Really and truly, it was a fun and productive weekend.

The Center itself is wonderful -- it's beautifully equipped, well lit, and set on a hill in the gorgeous countryside between Round Top and LaGrange.

Great Expectations Creativity Center

We had planned the weekend to jumpstart the upcoming traveling SAQA Texas show.  Members can submit a 12" x 12" quilt with a Texas theme.  If the member wishes to list his or her quilt for sale during the show, he or she must submit four quilts (so we can replace his or her quilt in the exhibit).  It was so much fun to see everyone's ideas take shape. 

There were several projects that were at least completed tops by noon on Sunday.  Kim's Brazos River landscape, Sara's cow, chickadee and Texas flag (improv style), Janice's denim and diamond piece,  Suzanne's checkerboard background.  My pieces are the four on the upper right.

A few of the projects in progress

On Friday night, we at Mexican food at Las Fuentes in LaGrange, and then returned to the Center in time to see a fabulous sunset.

If you are a SAQA member and live in Texas, check out our "Call for Entry." Entries are due September 1.

Caprock SAQA Circle Meeting - May 11, 2013

The Caprock SAQA Circle will meet May 11 at Grimes & Associates, 21103 FM 179, Wolfforth, Texas.

 

It's  time to pack up your creative juices and take to the road.  Muff Fregia is prepping for all of us to do some deconstructed screen printing.  I have 8 signed up so far for the morning workshop at 9:00.  We'll break at noon for lunch.  Bring a salad or some such to share and your drink and we'll eat and catch up. 

Business:

*Bring your suggestions for a workshop teacher.

* Remember our 24" x 36" quilts based on an emotion to be hung together for the Underwood center show next summer.

* If you need to drop off pieces for the Lubbock Mahon Library show in July, bring those. (small pieces to go in cases)

* Did you see our show at Ogallala - fantastic!

* Bring your show and tell

* Bring a photo of an early quilt, we will toss them in a hat and see if we can match them up to their makers.

Then:

Life and Quilts of......Janet Moran.  Program-slide show of quilts at Quilt Con by Denise Bean and discussion of Modern Quilts

 

Keep Quilting. Jean Grimes