The 2011 SAQA Benefit Art quilt Auction starts one week today – Monday September 12th at 2-00pm , Eastern Time USA – adjust for your local equivalent time to be quick off the mark.  It is an online auction, in reverse, so they come up on day 1 at the top price payable, (in this case $750) and every day at 2-00pm Eastern the price of those unsold drops, so they become more affordable but of course, more hotly contested !

For this annual auction, over 300 small wall quilts sized around 10″ to 12″ square, were contributed by SAQA members.  Every one is an original design.  Some of the makers are well known, and others not so – and in style and theme there’s something for everyone.  Some of them will be framed by their buyers, but all have been submitted ready to hang on the wall.   Mine is pictured below, and can be found on page 2a, 4th row down – this means it will be auctioned in the second auction week – the week beginning 19th september.

I don’t know why this little one never received a title – it is in the Timetracks series really, and I guess should be #21 but it never received it, and is listed as Untitled.  I’ll mentally allocate that number, and the next Timetracks I do, which is coming up in a rush right now, will be #22. 

 Anyway, if you are interested in collecting, go to SAQA where you will find this year’s quilts pictured on 6 pages.  Detailed instructions about how the auction operates are there.  Each  image can be clicked  to take you through to more information about the makers and their own websites.  New this year is the display of several small collections of images that have been grouped by volunteer curators who see a common theme in the quilts they selected.  These are very interesting – and I wonder if anyone will be prompted to try to collect a whole group?  Several pieces appear in more than one collection, interestingly, a sign of broad appeal, perhaps.