North SAQA September Meeting

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” 
― Pablo Picasso

     I am a little late in posting this blog but....last Saturday the September meeting of North Texas SAQA met at our new meeting place, Must Love Quilts, a lovely fabric shop in Grapevine.  They have a couple of classrooms that we can use for our meetings and, of course, there is a bit of shopping going on after our meetings!
      First Deborah, our fearless leader, told us about new Calls for Entries for SAQA members....that would be shows and other opportunities to apply to have quilts in a show.  Then we talked about some ideas for future meetings.  And because it was Heather's birthday, I had brought some cupcakes to celebrate. Then the highlight of the meeting...showing what we had been working on!

Heather shows her paper collage from which
 she made the blue quilt  below

                                     

A Heather quilt and the collage which inspired it

Deborah's Modern Quilt

Deborah's second quilt

Carolyn shows her small quilt adhered to a canvas.

Jackie shows her art quilt..beautiful quilting to see.

Jackie also showed some hand stitching she has been working on

Jo has been making little purses 

And a very cute Flamingo quilt was shown as well as the following  two pictures

Deborah's cute little beetle

Deborah Beschert has been published in Modern Patchwork for her cute little Beetle Pattern

And my assortment of quilts from NTAQ challenges to my Van Gogh Iris

      And our final item...very important aspect!!  Lunch!!  There are several good eateries around Must Love Quilts which also makes it a very good location for meetings.  Next month we will be meeting on Saturday, October 21....anyone  reading  this who is interested in learning oSAQA is welcome to join us!