Monday, December 31, 2012

AAQI Quilts Up At Auction: 2013







 January 2013 Online Auction!




I-411 - First Green
12,102 - Millie
12,106 - Where Are The Petunias
12,191 - Leaf Me Alone
12,193 - Motion 2
12,204 - Just Humming Along II
12,210 - Quiet Corners
12,211 - Honking Toads
12,215 - Cock-A-Doodle-Do
12,230 - Well, Hello Kitty!
12,234 - Bodhisattva
12,281 - Alone
12,285 - Peaceful Harbor
12,318 - Goldfish
12,327 - Underwater
12,329 - More Peanuts Please
12,331 - Shapleigh Pond - Evening
12,332 - Spring Breeze
12,341 - A Flower for Amalie
12,342 - Under the Sea
12,356 - Tribal Mother-In-Law
12,358 - The Tortoise and the Hare
12,360 - The Bridge
12,625 - The Golden Bird
12,626 - Showcase
12,654 - The Gypsy
12,676 - Dark Days




Michele Bilyeu blogs With Heart and Hands as she shares a quilting journey through her life in Salem, Oregon and Douglas, Alaska and all of her AAQI Quilting. Sharing thousands of links to Free Quilt and Quilt Block Patterns and encouraging others to join in the Liberated Quilting Challenge and make or donate small art quilts to the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) Help us change the world, one little quilt at a time!

Friday, December 7, 2012

Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative: AAQI Liberated Challenge




January 16, 2012 Update:

Big, big news for the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative...a reveal, a $1,000,000 Finale in sight, and sadly...the final year for AAQI!

click on :    AAQI and Our Million Dollar Finale



original post for this date below:
 See all of the quilts now at auction!

The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) December Auction is in full swing. And one of our Liberated Quilting Challenge members, Heidi Burkhardt of Ispringenm, Germany has a quilt available for bidding!

Please check out all of the wonderful quilts and support Heidi and our other AAQI quilters who are so creative and so generous in their donations of small format art quilts for this wonderful cause!

Join my Liberated Quilting Challenge by contacting Michele Bilyeu and create and donate small 9" x 12" (or smaller) quilts of your own.

Check out each of this month's auction quilts on the BenefitBidding.com website and make or add to an existing bid! Support Heidi and our other wonderful liberated quilters and AAQI supporters!


11,899 - Triangles 

11,899 - Triangles

Heidi Burkhardt
Ispringen, Germany
Width: 8" Length: 10"
Materials/Techniques: Cottons, machine pieced, hand quilted.
Artist Statement: Playing with shapes, mostly triangles and colors.


Michele Bilyeu blogs With Heart and Hands as she shares a quilting journey through her life in Salem, Oregon and Douglas, Alaska and all of her AAQI Quilting. Sharing thousands of links to Free Quilt and Quilt Block Patterns and encouraging others to join in the Liberated Quilting Challenge and make or donate small art quilts to the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) Help us change the world, one little quilt at a time!

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Heidi Has Another Quilt Up at Auction!


UnRuly Quilting: Heidi Has Another Quilt Up at Auction: Should have redirected to this blog post. It somehow self published in draft form on the wrong group blog! 

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8 hours ago - The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) December Auction is in full swing. And one of our Liberated Quilting Challenge members, Heidi Burkhardt of ...

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The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) December Auction is in full swing. And one of our Liberated Quilting Challenge members, Heidi Burkhardt of Ispringenm, Germany has a quilt available for bidding!

Please check out all of the wonderful quilts and support Heidi and our other AAQI quilters who are so creative and so generous in their donations of small format art quilts for this wonderful cause!

Join our own Liberated Quilting Challenge  and create and donate small 9" x 12" (or smaller) quilts of your own!

Check out each of this month's auction quilts on the BenefitBidding.com website and make or add to an existing bid! Support Heidi and our other wonderful liberated quilters and AAQI supporters!

AAQI quilt auctions run monthly from Dec.1 through Dec. 10.

Many, many more quilts are always available for purchase with all profits funding Alzheimer's Research. Please check out our AAQI Liberated Challenge web page at AAQI!

And if you make, register and donate quilts for this challenge...please let Michele Bilyeu know it's registration number so she can get it (them) up on the group page! 

11,899 - Triangles 

11,899 - Triangles

Heidi Burkhardt
Ispringen, Germany
Width: 8" Length: 10"
Materials/Techniques: Cottons, machine pieced, hand quilted.
Artist Statement: Playing with shapes, mostly triangles and colors.
This quilt has Fast Finish Triangles.


Michele Bilyeu blogs With Heart and Hands as she shares a quilting journey through her life in Salem, Oregon and Douglas, Alaska and all of her AAQI Quilting. Sharing thousands of links to Free Quilt and Quilt Block Patterns and encouraging others to join in the Liberated Quilting Challenge and make or donate small art quilts to the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) Help us change the world, one little quilt at a time!

Michele Bilyeu blogs With Heart and Hands as she shares a quilting journey through her life in Salem, Oregon and Douglas, Alaska and all of her AAQI Quilting. Sharing thousands of links to Free Quilt and Quilt Block Patterns and encouraging others to join in the Liberated Quilting Challenge and make or donate small art quilts to the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) Help us change the world, one little quilt at a time!

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative: Auction Time!




The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) holds monthly online auctions during the first 10 days of each month, hosted by BenefitBidding.com. The December auction quilts are listed below.  
Mark your calendar for Saturday and check out each quilt, up close and personal. The ideas and creativity never fail to inspire and the sales of these quilts raise wonderful monies for research funding for Alzheimer's Disease at major institutions!


11,899 - Triangles
11,913 - Ostentatious
11,914 - Sunny Day
11,915 - Circles and Squares
11,923 - Plant Where They Like
11,927 - Sunny Flowers
11,929 - Find the Essential
11,931 - Valentine to Myself
11,937 - Fantasy Flowers
11,953 - Double Wedding Ring
11,988 - Andromeda
11,989 - Phoenix
11,992 - Sun Kissed Leaves
11,994 - Forest Arch
12,008 - A Ray of Sunshine
12,023 - Sunset
12,025 - Trailing Away
12,045 - Fall's Last Bloom
12,116 - What's Your Name Again?
12,117 - Glory Bound
12,127 - 30's Spring
12,129 - Crazy For.....
12,293 - Kismet Cat On The Moon
12,309 - Mountain Reflections
12,311 - Origami Flowers
12,478 - Alzheimer's Blues
12,480 - Sunsets of Our Lives


And all the latest AAQI news about monies earned from our founder and Director of AAQI, Ami Simms:


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The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative has raised more than $870,000 for research!
How can you help? BUY A QUILT! This is a purchase with a purpose! Check one more gift off your holiday gift list as you help fund research for Alzheimer's. Buy those quilts here:
Thank you for your continued support of the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative!
Ami Simms

Founder & Executive Director, Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative

More than $870,000 raised for Alzheimer's research since January 2006. Help us make a difference...one quilt at a time. ******************************************************************************* Way to go AAQI, quilters, quilt purchasers and supporters who help in all of the myriad and wonderful ways that you all do!!!  Now, do check out the December quilt auction, beginning Saturday, Dec. 1st going through Dec. 10th!!! ******************************************************************************* Michele Bilyeu blogs With Heart and Hands as she shares a quilting journey through her life in Salem, Oregon and Douglas, Alaska and all of her AAQI Quilting. Sharing thousands of links to Free Quilt and Quilt Block Patterns and encouraging others to join in the Liberated Quilting Challenge and make or donate small art quilts to the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) Help us change the world, one little quilt at a time!