The annual Studio Art Quilt Associates’ Benefit Auction for 2013  kicks off in a few hours’ time, at 2-00pm, Eastern USA, currently 12 hours ahead of Australian EST    Over the next three weeks, and at the International Quilt Festival Houston in late October, the 420+  12″/20cm square quilts made and donated by Studio Art Quilt Associates  members from many countries around the world will be auctioned to raise funds to help cover SAQA’s art quilt touring exhibition programme.

Later today bidding will open on the first group of pages 1a and 1b.  They include several I would love to own, and include something for every taste.  “Sandlines”  below, goes up for sale today and I have my fingers X it might sell in the first part of the week.  On august 5th I wrote a bit about it, and my workroom/studio, in The SAQA-Oceania Bloghop

All pieces on those two pages will be $750 starting today, Monday, Sept. 9th at 2.00 pm Eastern until 1-59 pm Eastern on Tuesday, Sept. 10th, at which time unsold quilts on that page will be re-priced to $550, the price going down each day until the end of the week.    Group b auction begins 2-00pm Eastern next Monday sept.16th.  At http://www.saqa.com/saqa-u.php?ID=2367   you can find more information about how the auction works, the online bidding form (not live until 2-00pm US  Eastern later today), pages with images of all 421 pieces by this year’s contributing artists, and if you click through those images you can access technical details of their work, and click through their names to go to their websites if they have one.