Fantastic Fibers 2015 (2)

Alicia Merrett was the second person in our region to be selected for the Fantastic Fibres Exhibition. She has kindly sent in images of the piece that was selected and information about the piece.

'BLUE HARBOUR - 128 cm by 103 cm - 2014

This piece was made for the sheer pleasure of working with a large number of colours surrounding an large area of blue. Technically complex but very enjoyable to make.  The little boat shapes complete the aerial view of a harbour with a marina and beaches, colourful houses, green fields and earth-coloured hills. An imaginary map, but based on my research of harbour and marina maps.

Full Image

Detail

Call for Active Donation: the 2015 SAQA Benefit Auction, and ...

As SAQA members have read in the regular e-mail notifications from the board, SAQA's benefit auctin for 2015 is already on its way. If you haven't registered for your contribution, it's not too late, although you won't make the 'early bird cut' anymore. SAQA is looking forward to your donations. Some modalities haven been changed this year, check out the new rules and possibilities here.

And please remember: As last year we want to run a series on Europe/Middle East's contributions to the Auction, Take a few pictures while you are making one, and send them to the blog address or Uta (see links on the right hand bar) when you send your piece to SAQA.

(Here is a sneak preview of mine, finished on time, which will be posted tomorrow:

Shapes 28, by Uta Lenk, 2015, detail

If you have a brilliant idea for a slightly more flashy heading of the series than I came up with last year I am absolutely open for suggestions!

Looking forward to receiving many reports about your donations - let's put Europe/Middle East on the SAQA map for real!

Europe/Middle East is appearing on SAQA's world map...

Of course, this is a bit of a provocative header. But I wanted to point your attention into the direction of the main SAQA blog where our region has just appeared with a separate entry. This might be turning some awarenesses upside down, as on this upside down world map puzzle which I recently did with my son:

I am not able to give you any numbers, but I am pretty positive that ours is the largest region simply in terms of square miles covered...

As co-rep I have agreed to become a sort of "foreign correspondent" to the main SAQA blog, and will send in occasional reports to be published there. They will be different from what is published here, so it is well worth to take a look!

Fantastic Fibres 2015

Fantastic Fibres is a juried exhibition and, from the 430 entries, 60 were selected for the exhibition. All 60 entries will be on display from April 11th to June 16th at the Yeiser Art Centre in Paducah. Of the 60 selected works a third were by SAQA members and two of our region's members were accepted, Alicia Merrett and Sue Hotchkis.

Sue has had two entries accepted

Verdigris

Pool

The works of Sue and Alicia are also featured on the poster for the exhibition. Congratulations to both of you.

Sue was also recently interviewed by Linda Seward for the latest edition of the digital magazine Through Our Hands and Verdigris was used for the front cover.

In case you are unaware of this magazine, it is produced by Laura Kemshall and Annabel Rainbow. It can be read online at no cost or purchased as a PDF for £3 You can visit the site where there is far more than the magazine to view at http://www.throughourhands.co.uk

Do you read the SAQA blog?

If you do then I apologise in advance for duplicating the information. SAQA is trying to raise awareness about heart disease in women and is joining the Go Red For Women campaign by featuring members' quilts on a designated Pinterest Board. Although the campaign is American based, recent research shows that we Europeans also need to be aware.

At least two of our region's members already have quilts featured on the board.

Red Earth by Alicia Merrett

To view the quilts go to the Pinterest Board Go Red For Women

To find out more about research into women's health in Europe go to the website of the European Society of Cardiology

And if you don't read the main SAQA blog you can find it here.

Selected for Quilt National

Belated congratulations to the following members in our region whose entries were selected for Quilt National 2015. It is not possible to show any of the entries at the moment as this would disqualify the entrants but, once they are made public, we will be doing a series of posts on their entries and, hopefully impressions of the exhibition.

Successful entrants are

Inge Hueber  (Germany)
Dorte Jensen  (Denmark)
Brigitte Kopp  (Germany
Beatrice Lanter (Switzerland)
Olga Norris.  (United Kingdom)

For those of you who did not get in, the next entries will be for 2017 so you have plenty of time to begin planning your entry!

SAQA get-together in Prague

Jana Sterbovy, SAQA member and organizer of the Prague Patchwork Meeting, has again invited SAQA members for an informal get-together during the 9th Prague Patchwork Meeting, April 10 to 12, this year.
The meeting will take place on Saturday, April 11th,  at 1 p.m. in the restaurant of the hotel.

Any SAQA member who will be present in Prague is welcome to come and meet other members.

If you are plannning to attend, please send a mail to blog moderator Uta Lenk (link on the side bar of this blog).