Sydney SAQA Get Together

Here are some pics from the SAQA meeting in Sydney during the Quilt Show.  It was a useful and positive meeting.  Ideas discussed included mentorship between Oceania members, making us of the blog, regional gatherings between members, a possible exhibition, using SAQA brochures and recruiting new members.

This is the group, holding SAQA publications.

L-R: Lisa Walton, Cath Babidge, Sue Dennis, Rasa Mauragis.

Here is Sue in front of her quilt "In the Moonlight" selected for Hands All Around, 2013.

Here is Cath in front of her quilt.

Brisbane GTG - 1 June

The MOB got together again on Saturday - not that we were rowdy or anything, but we definitely had a good time.

The Members of Brisbane [hence MOB] meet around the turn of each season to chat, show and share, and generally connect with other local (or visiting) SAQA members.

Some of the show and tell -

Mel had a great pouch for  tucking her drawing/colouring supplies into her handbag -

These are photos taken during a trip to New York and printed onto fabric.

Rebecca used TAP to create the distressed images on this quilt -

Ali did some watercolouring as we watched -

That shiny material was found in the bin at her work.  She's stitched and fused and coloured it - and will take the blow torch to it next!

I showed some of my glue gun stencils -

Living Colour! Call for Entries

Following the fantastic response to Beneath the Southern Sky, SAQA Oceania member Brenda Gael Smith is curating another travelling textile art exhibition in 2014/2015.  This is an invitation to all textile artists to submit an entry exploring the theme Living Colour! Each work will be in a 100x40cm (L x W) vertical format and up to 30 works may be selected. To submit an entry, please review the Conditions of Entry and complete the Online Entry Form. The closing date for entries is 31 January 2014. International entries are welcome.