Spotlight Auction Deadline Extended

The Spotlight Auction deadline for the Lincoln conference has been extended to March 15th! Please consider donating a piece. These 6" x 8" pieces will be sold through a silent auction at the Conference Banquet. All proceeds benefit SAQA's exhibition programs. Deadline for entry: March 15, 2017. For details click here.  

2017 SAQA Trunk Show

The SAQA 2017 Trunk Show will be debuting at the SAQA Conference in Lincoln, Nebraska in April.   Kathy York has 462 trunk show quilts and will need some help mounting and labeling the quilts.  If you are able to help, please send her a Facebook message. Supplies for mounting the quilts have not arrived yet, so there will be a small delay in scheduling.  Kathy will email you when she has volunteer spots open.

Turtle Hand Batik - discount for Festival

SAQA members get a 10% discount at Turtle Hand Batik! Stop by booth #714 at International Quilt Festival.

Great chance to support a business owner that supports SAQA!

Plus these handcrafted fabrics are just stunning.

Next Central Texas Circle Meeting on May 14

SAQA Central Texas Circle Meeting

Saturday, May 14 from 10 am to 2'ish pm

Texas Art League

509 E. Davis St. in Luling

PLEASE RSVP BY CLICKING THE "GOING" BUTTON ON OUR FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE OR SEND A EMAIL TO KIM@QUILTING-ADVENTURES.COM so we can ensure we have enough table space and base fabric for our guerilla art project.

AGENDA

Enjoy our "A Texas Experience" 12x12 Trunk Show currently on display at the Art League!
Brief show and tell - bring your latest completed piece or work in progress
SAQA Conference Recap
Guerilla Art Round Robin

BRING

Brown bag lunch - there is a SMALL microwave available
Your 3 favorite mark making tools (i.e. stencils, themofax screens, stamps, paint brushes)
Your 3 favorite colors of fabric paint or fabric markers or dye sticks, etc.
Gloves and/or apron (if you care to stay paint free)
Water container for rinsing/cleaning your tools

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Kim Buchmann
Texas Region Co-Representative
kim@quilting-adventures.com

Houston fabric drive and meeting on May 14

Houston SAQA Members:

You won’t want to miss our May meeting! We’ll host a fabric drive for charity and fabric swap, show & tell and a presentation on SAQA Exhibitions.

Date & Time

May 14, 2016

10:30 am

Where

St. Philip Presbyterian, located on San Felipe near Loop 610.

4807 San Felipe St, Houston

Look for the handmade SAQA Meeting signs.

Topic

1.     Extended Show & Tell – Please bring your current project or next project. Finished or unfinished is okay. Share what you’re working on with our creative members.

2.     FABRIC DONATION COLLECTION AND FABRIC SWAP. Do you have fabric you no longer want or need? Bring it to the next SAQA meeting. We will be collecting fabric to donate to charity. Please bring your fabric in a box of some kind (plastic bags are too flimsy). We will accept all types of fabric that is usable and unsoiled. All SAQA members and guests will be invited to look through all the fabric and take what you want! A true fabric swap – you might find some treasure. What’s leftover will be donated. We hope you’ll participate.

3.     Suzan Engler will present a recap of the presentation given by the Exhibition Committee at the national convention. This is an excellent opportunity to hear about the growth in SAQA’s impressive exhibition schedule.

Lunch

Bring your lunch. There is a microwave provided in the room. 

Any questions, please email me directly (do not reply to this email).

Thanks.

See you Saturday, May 14^th.

Teresa Duryea Wong

SAQA Texas Co-Rep, Houston

September Art Quilt Workshop in New York with Dr. Sandra Sider

Dr. Sandra Sider, Curator of the Texas Quilt Museum, is holding a workshop in Stony Point, New York (about 1 hour drive north of Manhattan).

Creativity Workshop: Art Quilt Inspirations

September 25-29, 2016 (Sunday - Friday)

This workshop is based on the principles of art and design developed in Sandra Sider’s critique workshops and written about in the volumes of her Studio Quilt monograph series and illustrated in her new book 1000 Quilt Inspirations. Limited to a maximum of twelve participants, the workshop will allow Sandra to spend considerable amounts of time each day working one-on-one with quilters, evaluating their work and suggesting possible directions for developing each quilt. She will also teach the basics of monotype printing, stamp printing, and photo transfer, as well as cyanotype on fabric if we have a sunny day. The final morning will consist of critiques, with participants sharing and discussing their works in progress.

Quilters should bring materials to begin a new quilt top, their sewing supplies and tools, a sewing machine and an iron. Class is suitable for all levels of quilters, but excellent sewing skills and expertise with one's sewing machine is a must.

Tuition for the week is $500. There is also a materials fee of $40. Total cost is dependent on the lodging selected, from $450 to $775. It does include all meals.

To register:  http://stonypointcenter.org/get-involved/latest-news/222-quilt0116#.VvrCenCMD0A

Manipulating Fabric in March for Fun

The Houston group had a great meeting on March 12, 2016. Started off with extended show & tell. Always cool to see what this talented group of art quilters is working on!

Penny Hurst led a workshop on fabric manipulation. It was a fun way to spend the afternoon. Thank you Penny for volunteering to lead this!

New Quilts For Our Texas Region Trunk Show

Thank you to Hope Wilmarth (Spring), Katrina Wright (Abeline) and Gail Dentler (Victoria) for your new submissions to our Texas Region 12x12 Trunk Show!

A big thank you also goes out to Kelly Allen (Luling) who helped us get the trunk show into the Texas Art League in Luling. The quilts will be on display March 27 - May 31. Our Central Texas Circle meeting will be at the TAL on May 14 -- it's a great opportunity for you to see the quilts and catchup with your SAQA fiber friends.

I'll also be giving a talk about the quilts & SAQA at the Greater Houston Guild's meeting on Friday, March 18.

The Call for Entries for our trunk show is open and ongoing...there is no deadline to submit a piece to be added to the collection. Click here to download the prospectus and entry form.

Tres Amigos
by Hope Wilmarth

The End of the Day
by Katrina Wright

Afloat on the Llano River
by Gail Dentler

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Kim Buchmann
Texas Region Co-Rep
kim@quilting-adventures.com

Central Texas Circle Meetings

2016 Central Texas Meetings Update

FIELD TRIP NEXT WEEK

Sherri McCauley and I are going to La Grange on Friday, February 26, to see the current exhibit at the Texas Quilt Museum and the Art in Fiber show at the Copper Shade Tree Gallery. If anyone is interested in joining us, here is the plan:

Meetup at Bucee's on Hwy 71 in Bastrop at 10:30 am. Anyone who wants to carpool is welcome to drop their car at Bucee's and ride with me. I can fit +2 comfortably or +3 with three in the backseat. Please be aware we are on no specific timeline. If you need to be home by a certain time, you can meet us at Bucee's and caravan in your own car so that you can leave when you need to.

We will make a quick stop at the Colorado Valley Quilt Guild's show at the Fayette County Fairgrounds in La Grange. Then over to the Quilt Museum where selections from SAQA's Wild Fabrications exhibit is on display along with the Modern Quilt Guild's first juried exhibit for a museum venue, the Magna Carta quilts, and selected prize winners from IQA's judged show at Festival last year. Then we'll zip up to the Copper Shade Tree Gallery in Round Top to see Ginny Eckley & Sue Ennis' quilts in The Art in Fiber show. Somewhere in there we will have lunch at a place and time to be determined.

PLEASE EMAIL ME kim@quilting-adventures.com if you want to meet me at Bucee's in Bastrop so I know to expect you!

MARCH 12 MEETING

My apologies to everyone, but I had to cancel the March 12 meeting due to a conflict with my schedule and lack of volunteers to help organize the meeting.

MAY 14 MEETING

Our May 14 meeting will be Saturday, May 14, from 10 am to 2 pm at the Texas Art League in Luling. The address is 509 E. Davis St.  Thank you Kelly Allen for reserving this fantastic space for us again!

We are planning an interactive program and as soon as I have firm details, I will publish them here on the Texas Region blog and on our Facebook Events page.

ASSISTANCE NEEDED FOR FUTURE MEETINGS

I'm still looking for assistance with planning our July 9, September 10 and November 12 meetings. Do you know of a place we can meet?  Would you like to host a meeting at your home? Do you know of an upcoming fiber art event or other event of interest to our membership that we can organize an outing to? Would you like to give a demo or workshop of your favorite technique? If yes, get in touch with me!

I've had several members express an interest in having another critiquing session. If you have a work(s) that you would like to get feedback on in a friendly and supportive environment, shoot me an email and I'll work on getting another session scheduled.

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Kim Buchmann
Texas Region Co-Rep
kim@quilting-adventures.com

Volunteer Opportunity

The SAQA Exhibition Committee is looking for a member to serve as Trunk Show Coordinator for the 2017 SAQA Trunk Show. This volunteer opportunity is for SAQA's INTERNATIONAL trunk show; not to be confused with our Texas Region Trunk Show.

Here are the details...

The Trunk Show Coordinator is responsible for answering questions about the Trunk Show, receiving the artwork to be included in the show, and preparing the work for travel. Your postal mailbox will need to be able to handle a 10"x17" envelope that the artwork will be shipped in and you would need space within your home to store the 400+ expected envelopes and the 5 trunks that will eventually hold the artwork. 

Timeline:

Beginning in March 2016 -  Familiarize yourself with the trunk show prospectus. Answering occasional member questions via email after the prospectus is posted on the SAQA website. Questions can also be forwarded to the Exhibition Committee if you are unsure of the reply.  Most questions arise due to members not reading the prospectus thoroughly. 

September 1 - November 30, 2016 - Envelopes containing artwork and entry forms will begin to arrive at your address.  Send an email acknowledging that the artwork has arrived - the artist's email address will be on the entry form.  

January - March 2017 -  Hold one or more "mounting parties" to photograph and attach the artwork to 9” x 12” black mounting boards, along with the corresponding label and then slip the mounted and labeled work into a plastic sleeve.  SAQA provides the mounting boards, labels, sleeves, and trunks for shipping.

Once the artwork is prepared, packed into the SAQA provided trunks and shipped, the Coordinator job is done!

If you have any questions or would like additional information, please contact Suzan Engler, Vice Chair of the Exhibition Committee, at suzan@suzanengler.com.

If you are interested in being the 2017 Trunk Show Coordinator, please contact Suzan directly or one of the Texas Region Representatives.

images from Houston's Jan 9th meeting

SAQA Houston members met on Jan 9 and shared an amazing collection of art quilts!

Thanks to Suzan Engler for hosting the meeting - and to Suzan and Annie Smith for coordinating a drawing demo.

Still Space Left in Workshop with Katie PM

There are still a few spaces left in this 2-day workshop with Katie Pasquini Masopust next month!

The Caprock Art Quilters SAQA Circle in West Texas

is pleased to announce they are sponsoring a workshop 

with 

Katie Pasquini Masopust

Thursday, February 11 - Friday, February 12 

8:30 am – 4:30 pm each day

Texas Tech Museum in the Klein Room

Day 1 - Using Value to Improve Quilts

Day 2 - Improving your Composition skills to make better Art Quilts

Cost is $180 for the two day class including the kit

Download the registration form here

The workshop will be held at the Texas Tech Museum in conjunction with an exhibit of quilts from the Texas Tech collection from January 15 - May 15.  The Caprock Art Quilters will also have a display at the Museum during this time.

Their regular SAQA Circle meeting will be on Saturday, February 13, so plan to make it a long weekend, visit their meeting and see what this awesome group of very active art quilters is up to!

Houston circle meeting - Jan 9th 2016

Dear SAQA Texas – Houston Area Members:

Mark your calendars for our next Houston meeting - Jan 9th. Everyone is invited to attend.

Date & Time

Jan. 9, 2016

10:30 am – 1:30 pm

Where

St. Philip Presbyterian, located on San Felipe near Loop 610.

4807 San Felipe St, Houston

Agenda

1.     Extended Show & Tell – Please bring your current project --- finished or unfinished is okay. Share information on how (or why) you made the piece and any tips or techniques you used, or where you got your inspiration. Everyone is invited to ask questions or offer positive feedback.

2.     Lunch --- Bring your lunch. There is a microwave provided in the room.

3.     After lunch, Suzan Engler and Annie Smith will lead a fun creativity exercise! You will make a hand-drawn mandala or zentangle.  Drawing skills are not needed!  Please bring a pencil, marker, and maybe colored pencils or crayons.  The paper will be provided.  We will explore ways to use the drawings as the inspiration for future art work.

Any questions, please email me directly (do not reply to this email).

I will be traveling and will not be able to attend this meeting.

Suzan Engler has agreed to host the meeting. Thank you Suzan for all you do for SAQA Houston!

Thanks.

Teresa Duryea Wong

SAQA Texas Co-Rep, Houston

Email:  teresa@thirdfloorquilts.com

Central Texas Circle Meeting Reminder

Join us for our first meeting of 2016! 

Saturday, January 9
10 am to 2 pm

Katie Winter and Sara Sharp will be the featured presenters showing us various methods of placing letters & words into our fabric art

Dale Ricklefs has generously offered to host at her home

4 Stillmeadow

Round Rock 78664

 Phone: 512-669-1753

Be sure to specify Round Rock in your mapping tool 

as there is a Stillmeadow in NW Austin

The meeting will start at 10 am with introductions and show & tell. A light lunch of Soup and Build-Your-Own-Salad will be served, along with tea, coffee, and some form of Crystal Light. Feel free to bring other beverages. Please bring a dessert for everyone to share.

PLEASE RSVP IF YOU ARE COMING BY THURSDAY NIGHT 

SO DALE CAN PLAN FOR SPACE & FOOD ACCORDINGLY

You can RSVP by:

1. Clicking on the "GOING" button on our Facebook Event page; or
2. Leave a message on Dale's cell phone at 512-669-1753; or 
3. Email Dale at dalericklefs@gmail.com

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The SAQA Central Texas Circle meets on the 2nd Saturday of every other month beginning in January.

Volunteers are needed to organize our next meeting on Saturday, March 12.  If you are interested in hosting the meeting or arranging for the location and/or giving a demo/program please contact Kim Buchmann at kim@quilting-adventures.com.

New Call for Entries for our Region Trunk Show

Our 12x12 Trunk Show A Texas Experience
will continue through 2016

New members and those who did not submit work during the original call,

NOW is your chance to enter a piece in the collection!

Download the revised Call For Entries here

Our Texas Region Trunk Show showcases the wide range of artistic interests, styles and techniques used in the art quilts made by our members. It is available as an art quilt program for guilds and other artists groups and we can tailor the presentation to fit the interests of the membership and time allotted at meetings. The trunk show can also be displayed as a special exhibit at quilt shows, galleries, churches, schools, office buildings, open houses, or other special event.

A Texas Experience at QuiltFest in Austin

The theme A Texas Experience draws on each artist’s reflection on being a resident of the Lone Star State.  Inspiration was taken from the diverse topographic and cultural landscape; the past, present and future of the State; the emotional impact of being a Texan; and the unique people, events, scenery, etc. that is so much a part of the Texas mystique.

You can download our trunk show flyer here. A CD of all the quilts in the collection is also available along with a promotional one-sheet that can be given to curators and prospective venues. If you have a suggestion of a venue where the trunk show can be displayed or are interested in helping complete exhibit proposals, please contact Kim Buchmann at 512-736-2971 or kim@quilting-adventures.com.

2016 SCHEDULE

March 18 (tentative)

Quilt Guild of Greater Houston

Member Meeting Program

April 11 - 12 (tentative)

Jordan Ranch Open House

2016 Meeting Dates

Mark your 2016 calendar now for these meeting dates

Members and guests are welcome and encouraged to attend
meetings in any area of the state!

Central Texas Circle 

Meets the 2^nd Saturday of every other month beginning in January

January 9, March 12, May 14, July 9, September 10, and November 12

Time, location and program are announced 

on the Central Texas Facebook Page and Texas Region Blog

Houston Circle 

Meets the the 2^nd Saturday of every other month beginning in January

January 9, March 12, May 14, July 9, September 10, and November 12

St. Philip Presbyterian Church 

4807 San Felipe (near Loop 610) in Houston

 10:30 am to 1:30 pm

North Texas Circle 

Will meet January 16, April 16, August 20, and November 12 

Petite Atelier

2952 Commerce St. in Dallas

Meetings begin at 10 am.

West Texas Caprock Art Quilters Circle 

Will meet February 13, May 14, August 13, and November 12

Red Barn Retreat Center

18311 County Road 1640 in Wolfforth

9 am Workshop

Noon Lunch

1 pm Meeting & Program

Workshop with Katie Pasquini Masopust

The Caprock Art Quilters SAQA Circle in West Texas

is pleased to announce they are sponsoring a workshop 

with 

Katie Pasquini Masopust

Thursday, February 11 - Friday, February 12 

8:30 am – 4:30 pm each day

Texas Tech Museum in the Klein Room

Day 1 - Using Value to Improve Quilts

Day 2 - Improving your Composition skills to make better Art Quilts

Cost is $180 for the two day class including the kit

Download the registration form here

The workshop will be held at the Texas Tech Museum in conjunction with an exhibit of quilts from the Texas Tech collection from January 15 - May 15.  The Caprock Art Quilters will also have a display at the Museum during this time.

The Caprock Art Quilters will have their regular SAQA Circle meeting on Saturday, February 13, so plan to make it a long weekend and join them for their meeting to see what this awesome group of very active art quilters is up to!

Houston Circle Meeting Nov 14

Mark your calendars for our Nov 14 meeting in Houston. All SAQA members are invited to attend.

Suzan Engler has kindly offered to share her experience in working with digital printing, specifically companies like Spoonflower. She will explain how to prepare images for printing and the tips and techniques for successful one of a kind digital textile prints. Suzan is an award-winning art quilts and a Superior Threads Star.

Please bring your current and finished art quilts to share with the group. We will spend the first hour in an extended show and tell and we look forward to seeing and discussing what you are working on.

Bring a sack lunch. There is a microwave provided in the room.

Date & Time

Nov. 14, 2015

10:30 am – 1:30 pm

Where

St. Philip Presbyterian, located on San Felipe near Loop 610.

4807 San Felipe St, Houston

Look for the SAQA Meeting signs.

Meeting Reminders

All Texas Region SAQA Circles will meet next Saturday, November 14

Please continue reading for details on each of the meetings around the state

CENTRAL TEXAS CIRCLE MEETING
1 - 3 pm The Scrappy Quilter

1208 FM 78, Suite J in Schertz (San Antonio area)

PROGRAM: GROUP CRITIQUE SESSION and SHOW & TELL
If you own Lyric Kinard's Art + Quilt: Design Principles and Creativity Exercises please bring it with you.

Our program this month builds on Sandra Sider's critiquing art quilts workshop with a group critique session in a friendly and supportive environment. If you do not have a piece you want critiqued, you won't be left out in the cold. Everyone will benefit from participating in a guided critique session that will help you learn how to look at art quilts and at your own work with a more critical eye.

Do you have a work in progress that you're stuck on and would like some help on how to move forward? One that has been rejected from a show or two and you want to get some suggestions on how you could improve it? Maybe you would like to get opinions from your fiber friends on whether or not a piece is "show worthy"? What ever the case may be, we need your quits to have a successful critique session.

PLEASE EMAIL KIM BUCHMANN kim@quilting-adventures.com NO LATER THAN THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12 IF YOU WILL BE BRINGING SOMETHING FOR THE GROUP TO CRITIQUE. We have only 2 hours for this meeting and I need to know how much time to allot for the critique portion.

If you don't have something you want the group to critique, please bring 1 piece - one, uno, un, ein, один - for show & tell. I was recently at a retreat where we had a very interesting discussion about how endless show & tell is at many guild meetings because people give no thought to what they want to say (we've all been there!) and how different guilds deal with this issue. 

Be prepared with your elevator speech about your work -- you'll be allotted 2 minutes to tell us about your quilt. If you aren't familiar with the "elevator speech" concept, email me kim@quilting-adventures.com and I'll explain it to you. When deciding what to say, ask yourself why you selected THIS piece? What's the most important thing(s) you want to convey to us in two minutes or less? Was it made for a special person or occasion? Is it a cool technique you just learned that you want to share with us? Is it a quilt you won an award with? Just remember, you'll have 2 minutes for the what, when, why and/or how!

Again, please bring ONE piece for show & tell and be prepared with a two minute or less elevator speech. We have only two hours for this meeting -- The Scrappy Quilter closes at 3 pm and the staff will be ready to go home.

CAPROCK ART QUILTERS (CAQ) CIRCLE MEETING

8:30 am Shibori Techniques Workshop

Noon Lunch

1 pm Meeting & Program

Red Barn Ranch Retreat Center

18311 County Rd. 1640 in Wolfforth

8:30 am MORNING WORKSHOP - SHIBORI FABRIC DYEING led by Denise Bean.
Please RSVP for the workshop by leaving a comment on the group's Facebook page or reply to the email you should have received. Supply fee is $20 and payable cash/check at the workshop. Additional supply list for things you need to bring is below.

1 pm MEETING
Remember to bring Show and Tell projects. At the meeting we will also have a *CREATIVE SUPPLIES GARAGE SALE* benefiting CAQ. Start NOW collecting your extra creative supplies that you are no longer interested in, but would likely be someone else's treasure. Price them and bring them along with cash/checks to purchase the treasures you want to take home.

SHIBORI is the Japanese name for specific methods of making pattern and texture on textiles. The techniques can be divided into 4 categories:  1) Binding, 2) Stitching, 3) Folding with Binding or Clamping and 4) Wrapping. In this class we will make samples of each of these techniques, and dye them with Indigo. At the end of the workshop you will have samples that can be placed in a notebook for reference or that can be used to make a sample shibori quilt.

WORKSHOP PREP & SUPPLY YOU BRING:
Prep and Supplies
Each person should bring 2 yards of bleached and mercerized cotton that is 1) PFD (prepared for dyeing) or 2) washed in 140 degree water with detergent or Synthrapol if you have it. PFD cotton can be purchased over the internet from Dharma Trading or Pro Chemical Dyes. You can use non-mercerized and non-bleached fabric if you have it already. But the color will not end up with a good bright or deep value. Please iron the fabric, as it is easier to work with than when it is really wrinkled from the dryer.
From 1 yard of fabric, precut 18 - 20 8” x 11” pieces of fabric
From ½ yard of fabric, precut 18 - 6” x 6” pieces of fabric
The 8” x 11” pieces will serve as samples you can place in page protectors for a notebook. The 6” x 6” pieces can be used to make a sample quilt. The balance of the fabric can be dyed solid to use as sashing, borders, or other pieces in your sample quilt.
Dishwashing gloves & apron
Wear old clothes!

HOUSTON CIRCLE MEETING
10:30 am at St. Philip Presbyterian Church
San Felipe at 610 Loop in Houston

NORTH TEXAS CIRCLE MEETING

10 am at Petite Atelier

2952 Commerce St. in Dallas
Don't forget your show & tell!

The Quilt Alliance Wants YOU at Festival!

Hello friends of the Quilt Alliance!

This year at Festival, the Quilt Alliance is planning on filming more of our Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! three-minute videos with show entrants, as well as recording our longer-form QSOS interviews. 

The Go Tell It project has been especially popular in years past, and is a simple videotaped interview project that follows the formula:  “One person, one quilt, one camera, three minutes. Another quilt story saved!” Our interviews from last year's Festival are here.

We're looking for interviewees that might be interested in sharing their quilts with us, whether they have a quilt in the show or want to bring a quilt with them to Festival to talk about. We'd love your help spreading the word--we still have lots of open spots for both Go Tell It and QSOS interviews! 

The signup form is here: https://quiltalliance.formstack.com/forms/iqf2015

If you're able to share on social media, or on your website or email list if you have one, we'd love to draw more interviewees (we currently have only 1!)  I know many of you were a big help to us last year finding interviewees, so if you know of anyone that would be interested, please send them our way.

Thanks again!
Emma Parker

Oral History Projects Manager

Quilt Alliance