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| text messages 28 - my contribution to the SAQA Benefit Auction in 2021 |
For the first time in many years I have not donated a piece for the SAQA Benefit Auction this year. Despite the fact that I had collected pieces of fabric that I wanted to use right after finishing last year’s piece. But best intentions of starting it immediately after the September ’24 run of the auction were waylaid by our move, my overall state of mind throughout the last year, and, perhaps, a bit by the fact that again my piece sold for only $75. After that one-time big success when my piece sold for $750 in 2020
text messages 25: love protect repeat, 2020
my style has not been terribly well liked with bidders even to the point where one piece didn't get sold at all (and I then took it back from Houston International Quiltfestival). The piece pictured above still sold, though. Add to that frustration the increasing difficulties of getting the pieces shipped to the US – price, regulations as to what you are allowed to send, and then house buying, planning the move…
(And now how are we ever going to get a quilt to the US for such an auction? If SAQA doesn’t figure out a way how to collect the European donations and clandestinely transport them to the US, I wonder whether it is going to break their financial possibilities? I need to find out about their plans for that…)
At least I wanted to post a personal dream collection before bidding starts tomorrow, but I can’t seem to access their site. So all I can do right now is to give you the link:
https://events.handbid.com/auctions/2025-saqa-benefit-auction/items
Hope it works tomorrow – please support SAQA if you can by bidding on a quilt. And perhaps I will again contribute to the auction next year, who knows. But somehow my hopes aren’t high on this issue.
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