SAQA Auction Piece and a Collage

I contribute a piece every year to the annual SAQA Benefit Auction, but I didn't think I was going to make it this year due to various things going on in my life and not feeling inspired to make anything new. I was only sewing masks, lots of masks. Then I started going through my small pieces and came across one that was about 15" x 22". The auction pieces have to be 12" square. I had made this piece for a solo show a few years ago and thought it would cut down perfectly. I made a 12" mat and slid it around until I found a section I liked.

This was part of a fine line piecing series of small quilts and this one is Fractured VII.

These will be prfessionaly photographed, thank goodness. No matter how hard I try, I either get an out-of-square picture or one with uneven lighting, like this one. But you get the idea. The original piece was faced and I laboriously picked off that facing because I had no more of this red fabric. Somehow I didn't have enough to face this one, so I decided to bind it. I also didn't have enough to do a French binding and I just did a single layer and I am so glad that I did. I don't think I will ever do a French binding on a small quilt again. Not more clunky corners and a nice tidy binding.

I love this backing fabric and much more of it showed on the original piece, but with the smaller size and the sleeve ((also cut down from the bigger piece) and the label, much of it is lost.

The auction isn't until Sept. but you can go here and read all about the auction, how it works, and see some of the pieces that are already on display. There are some fabulous pieces there.


Our monthly college challenge for my FiberWorks groups was Insects. I chose to do dragonfly.

I used a multiple of resources for this one. On the far right is a page cut from an encyclopedia page. Yes I still have  a set of  Encyclopedia Britannica in the basement purchased when my son was little. I was throwing them away, one by one for a while and then forgot about it. Luckily I still had the one with Dragonfly. The others were photographed from two unabridged dictionaries that I couldn't bear to cut up. The large colored dragonfly was printed onto tracing paper. The teal and white are embossed velvet made with a dragonfly stamp that I already had. The background between the printed sections we're stamped with a stamp that had printing that were not really words, but looked like words from a distance. I stamped it in gray. I am pleased with the results and consider this a true mixed media collage. It was done on a 9 x 12 canvas board. I don't remember next month's word, but I would like to do a series like this.

I will be linking up with Off the Wall Friday.