SAQA Oregon Members Contribute to the SAQA Benefit Auction

Over 280 pieces have been donated to the 2010 SAQA Benefit Auction. The funds raised through the Auction are critical to supporting SAQA's exhibitions, catalogs and outreach programs. SAQA's Benefit Auction is its biggest fundraiser. Last year donations from 235 members raised $47,325!!!

This year's Auction will begin on Monday, September 20th at 2:00 Eastern. Price points will again be: $750, $550, $350, $250, $150 and $75. Unsold work will be placed on the SAQA website for a month and then returned to the artist.To see all of the quilts, go to the SAQA website.

Quilts donated by members of Oregon SAQA are shown here. If we missed anyone, please let us know right away.  Above, Entwined Roots by Gerrie Congdon.
 

It's All About the Ball by Chris Brown

Shakin' the Peach Tree by Georgia French

Tillamook Rooster by Terry Grant

Tulips by Jill Hoddick

Jumpin' Jive by Kim Lakin 

Spring Color by Ila McCallum

SAQA Members on Display in LaConner

Ila McCallum had two quilts accepted into the LaConner Quilt & Textile Museum Quilt Fest 2010 which features The Applique Society. The quilts are Small Flowers (Artist’s Way Quilt), 19w x 12h, shown below, and Geranium, 48w x 40h, above. Suzy Bates' quilt What's Next? will also be part of the applique show.The show runs October 1, 2, & 3, 2010.

The two quilts below are on display September 1 through October 15 as part of the LaConner Quilt Walk.  These quilts are part of the Guatemala Bound project being headed by Bonnie Bucknam.  Bonnie and friends are making quilts for children in an orphanage near Solola, Guatemala.  These two quilts are for sale, with proceeds dedicated toward cost of shipping the quilts to the orphanage.

Log Cabin Center Diamond by Pat Sims and Bonnie Bucknam.

Mary's Flowers

Appliqued and pieced by Mary Arnold.  Machine quilted by Bonnie Bucknam.

The Quilted Forest at the Oregon State Fair, Salem

Ila McCallum will have a piece in a special exhibit, The Quilted Forest, at the Oregon State Fair in Salem August 27 - September 6, 2010.  Visitors will be able to walk through a forest of quilted trees.  The show is sponsored by Greenbaum’s Quilted Forest in Salem. Go to their website for information on entering artwork.