We welcomed Lorraine to the s and b committee a few months ago. Her experience in the art world is a great asset as well as her nice personality! Her profile is on the ‘People’ page.

The professional photography arrangements now include options for multisided works for stitched and bound.

Josh Wells, freelance photographer: $60 for the first quilt (total for one full and one detail photo), $40 for each additional quilt (total for one full and one detail photo), plus $20 for a second full view photo.

Churchill Color Labs: $65 total for one full view and one detail photo, plus $15 for a second full view photo.

 Other details for the photography offers are on the Help articles/ Forms page https://stitchedandboundblog.wordpress.com/help-articlesforms/

Still time to start an entry! We are looking forward to receiving them. Especially since they will be contemporary and innovative!

The online entry form has been redone with a new template – a very slick look, and all ready for your quilt entry. The form now allows photos to be uploaded. Entry forms and photos sent by email or snail are still okay, but the online method is MUCH easier for the stitched and bound organisers to process.

Check out the online entry form now – its on the Entry form page.

Arrangements have been made with Josh Wells, freelance photographer, and with Churchill Imaging, for professional photography of entries into stitched and bound. The arrangements are available to any entrant.  Details can be found by downloading this document:    photography-for-s-and-b-2017

Good photographs are needed for your stitched and bound entry. Suggestions are available by clicking here    suggestions-for-photographing-your-quilt-entry

Arrangements for professional photography will follow soon.

Having to write an Artist Statement can hinder people  from entering stitched and bound–but help is at hand! Click on the document below for suggestions:  writing-artist-statements

Virginia O’Keefe says: I entered Stitched and Bound because I felt my style of quilt work didn’t really fit into other categories. Writing the artist’s statements helped me to focus on why what I had made was important to me as a quilting artist and how the all the elements of design need to be considered.

I make for me and not for exhibition, so when quilts are accepted I am pleased but wouldn’t be unhappy if I miss out. I think it is important to be confident in your ideas and process and just go for it. I have had two entries shown, in ’97 and ’14. Stitched And Bound is the foremost contemporary exhibition in Perth and allows us to freely display what might otherwise be left in a cupboard.

Sovereign Borders by Virginia O’Keefe, 2014

You can read all about the whys and wherefores of the stitched and bound jury process in the November CQG newsletter, or here:   the-jury-process-2017

At the November 15 WAQA Sewing Day and November 16 Sewing Night, you can go to a ‘Popup” session to see quilts that got accepted through the jury process in previous stitched and bound exhibitions, and quilts that didn’t get accepted. Reasons, real or conjectured, for acceptance or non-acceptance, all in good humour, have been provided by the ‘quilt artists’.

If you take advantage of these opportunities, you should be eager to enter your quilt in stitched and bound 2017, with no qualms at all about the jury process!

Entries are due April 7, 2017

Entry is open to residents of Western Australia only

There is free choice about subjects portrayed–no theme is specified

Provided works have a basic quilt structure of at least two layers stitched together,  alternative formats are welcome, eg scrolls, books, bowls, and sculptures.

Exhibition dates are July 14 – 30.