Monday, January 14, 2019

A Few Spots Left for Kathy Nutley Workshop Saturday, January 26th

Kathy Nutley’s Workshop:  Adding Color to Your Quilts
      Location:   United Church of Christ on the Green
                           323 Temple Street
                           New Haven, CT
                          (Parking available behind church)                      
       Date:          Saturday,  January 26, 2018  
                                    Time:          9:00 am to 3:00 PM

                                            Fee: $40    (Make checks out to SAQA CT)
                                                             Send to:  Jan Doyle, 60 Peddlers
                                                              Drive, Branford, CT 06405 or bring to
                                                              meeting.  (You are only assured of a 
                                                              spot if I have a check.)
                                            Maximum number of participants:  10
                                           (Fee includes all supplies needed with the 
                                               exception of ones listed below.)
                         ·      Please bring:  Disposable craft gloves (at least 2 each) 
                         ·      Iron and ironing surface

                               Questions?  Call Kathy at  (203)-556-3685

Saturday, January 12, 2019

Lisa Walton Teaching at ProChem in July 2019

GREAT CLASS AT PROCHEM IN JULY (15-19)

Lisa Walton, from Australia, is coming to Massachusetts teach techniques for dyeing, stamping, and manipulating fabric to create design – IF we can fill the class!   
Lisa is a lot of fun, very talented and a foodie to boot! She is world-renowned but generally unknown in New England, so this is a chance to get into a class that will become very popular as word spreads.

Check out past workshop results on YouTube

Register or read about the class at

Monday, January 7, 2019

Sisters in Cloth in Madison

Sisters In Cloth Exhibit
Tranquility
Mercy by the Sea
167 Neck Rd.
Madison, CT 06443
Exhibit Dates: January 3 – Feb 19
Reception: Sunday Jan 6th2-4pm    Snow date: Sunday January 13th2-4pm

TRANQUILITY – The January exhibit at Mercy by the Sea, is a collection of quilt art by the current members of Sisters in Cloth – a group of Connecticut women who meet regularly to encourage and inspire each other to make art. The exhibit includes a combination of both recent and older works, all curated to create a sense of calm. 

Sisters in Cloth began in 2000 as part of the Guilford Newcomers Club. The group has been exhibiting their work along the Connecticut shoreline for 15 years and some members have shown their work across the United States and abroad. 

Members include: Diane Wright, Robin Wolek, Debra Bento, Yvette Howard, Carol Ludington, Barbara Coleman Adams, Gail Kotowski, Linda Zimmerman, Ruth Anne Olson, Gina Grubb Frank, Alice Chittenden, and Lynne Allen.


Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Shoreline Local Connections Meeting



REMINDER - SAQA-CT Shoreline Local Connections is meeting on TUESDAY, Nov. 13, from 10-noon at 23 DIONIGI DR., DURHAM, CT  06422.  Come on over and visit with fellow artists and share your news and new projects.  If there is interest and time, there will be a demonstration of thermofax screen creation and use.  Contact Lynne Allen (lynne.esq@gmail.com   860 852 5853) for directions, details, or to let her know you are coming.

Saturday, October 6, 2018

Local Connections Durham POD

Carol Capozzoli writes that:

Lynne Allen has volunteered to host the 10/09/18 meeting at her home.
Address is  :23 Dioonigi Drive, Durham, CT 06422
                    her phone # is 660-852-5853
She can accommodate many people.  Please call Lynne to let her know if you will be attending.  

Thursday, September 27, 2018

MA/RI Exhibit: Explorations-Journeys in Creativity opens Oct 13

The MA/RI Regional exhibition, Explorations: Journeys in Creativity:
Inside The Quilt Artist's Studio, Part 1, will debut on October 13,
2018 at the New England Quilt Museum (NEQM), 18 Shattuck St, Lowell,
MA at 1pm. A MA/RI meeting is planned at NEQM prior to the opening at
11am. All are welcome to the meeting as well.

Lightening Talks from five artists will be a part of the opening
reception/meeting:

Agusta Agustsson (MA) Intuitive Quilting
Madalene Murphy (MA) Leading Questions: How Did I Get From There to Here?"
Susan V. Polansky (MA) The Many Layers of Photoshop, Quilts, and Meaning
Catherine Whall Smith (CT) “How a Multi-Tasking Fiber Artist Really
Works” or, “Getting the piece ready for the Hand Quilting seems like a
sedentary activity - BUT IT’S NOT!”
Nancy Turbitt (RI) Solving Problems with Technique
You won't want to miss these interesting Lightening Talks!

Also showing at NEQM will be Susan Carlson, including her amazing
crocodile, in the Main Gallery and Salley Mavor's exhibit, "Liberty
and Justice: New Artwork by Salley Mavor". Many of you will not want
to miss this amazing opening day at NEQM.

The Explorations catalog is finally complete and it is marvelous!
Thanks go to the team of Allison Wilbur, Dixie Walker and Jeanne
Holtzman for countless hours of work. The full color catalog for
"Explorations: Journeys in Creativity: Inside the Quilt Artist's
Studio" can be pre-ordered for pick up at the October 13 MA/RI meeting
and opening reception at NEQM. The 160 page full color catalog is
priced at $24.95 and includes a 6-page section for each of the 24
artists detailing their chosen technique.

The SAQA artist's and their techniques included in the catalog are:

Agusta Agustsson - printing with gelatin plate
Sue Bleiweiss - raw edge fusible appliqué
Ann Brauer - quilt-as-you-go
Diane Cadrain - thread painting and felting
Sue Colozzi - layered fabric collage
Judy Dales - curved piecing
Janis Doucette - eco printing
Diane English - improvisational piecing
Janice Jones - surface embellishment
Mary-Ellen Latino - digital image manipulation and shibori, discharge & vat dyes
Marya Lowe - improvisational piecing
Jeanne Marklin - fabric dyeing
Valerie Maser-Flanagan - improvisational piecing
Sharon McCartney - printing and image transfer
Suzanne Munroe - painting/portraiture
Madalene Murphy - fabric manipulation
Susan V. Polansky - photoshop composition and fabric collage
Wen Redmond - digital photo manipulation and paste mediums
Cheryl Rezendes - surface design and hand embroidery
Diane Sheckells - applique and perle cotton embroidery
Catherine Whall Smith - hand quilting from reverse
Sarah Ann Smith - fused collage
Timna Tarr - applique and machine quilting
Nancy Turbitt - surface design with markers

To preorder, please email how many you want to purchase including your
order total to Nancy Turbitt (artgirlri@hotmail.com) by Oct 1. Please
bring payment with you to pick up your catalogs at the NE Quilt Museum
on October 13, in the form of a check made out to SAQA. No catalogs
will be mailed by Allison or Nancy, PICK-UP ONLY at NEQM on October
13.

1 book ($24.95) + tax ($1.56) = $26.51

Please remember to add 6.25% sales tax to all order totals

Sales of the catalog will support future programs and exhibitions in
the MA/RI region. If you are unable to pre-order and pick up the
catalog at the opening, catalogs will also be available through the
New England Quilt Museum gift shop during both segments of the
exhibition in Fall 2018 and Spring 2019, and part of the proceeds will
go to help the museum.

If you can’t pre-order or buy through the museum (remember this is the
best way to support our region), the catalog will also be available
online through Amazon.
A link will soon be available to order directly from Amazon.

If you have any questions about pre-ordering email Nancy.
(artgirlri@hotmail.com)

Hope you are as excited as we are about this amazing exhibit and
catalog. Please use social media or your blog or website, to get the
word of the opening reception and catalog out. See you at the opening!

Best,
Nancy & Allison

Nancy Turbitt
artgirlri@hotmail.com
401-575-7292

Allison Wilbur
allisonquilt@me.com
401-316-6410

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