AAQI Update for December 2011:
You have GOT to check out some of these quilts!For the latest info on our work with the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative go to the newer posts on this site:
Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative and the Liberated Quilting ChallengeWe have some wonderful new additions to our
Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative donations page and our
Liberated Quilting Challenge. Many of our quilters quilts are still available for sale on that page, so check them all out!
March info:
The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative 2011 March Auction is about to begin!
The Auction runs from March 1-10 and the bidding can be found on the
Benefit Bidding's AAQI Auction webpage and viewed at any time. I am so excited for Kathleen and urge all of you to check out her quilt, up close and personal, and make a bid on it! Congratulations, Kathleen...way to go!!!
We have some wonderful new additions to our
Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative donations page and our
Liberated Quilting Challenge. Many of our quilters quilts are still available for sale on that page, so check them all out!
My last quilt
6078 - Far, Far, Away earned us $130.00 at auction, which sent me over the moon with happiness. But it is ALL of YOU and all of the quilts you make for us...day after day...quilt after quilt...that add up the fastest.
One larger amount never equals many smaller amounts.....ever. We build our army with each of us as individual quilting soldiers...and we are going to win this battle over Alzheimer's Disease....quilt by quilt, and day by day! So, bless each and every one of you!
Here are our newest additions to our 2011 Liberated Challenge quilts that have now been added to our webpage. All of our 2010 are still up for viewing, as well, preceding these newest additions.
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AAQI raised more than $54,000 from its quilt sales at the 2010 Houston International Quilt and were able to donate $140,000 to Alzheimer's research in 2010.One of their $30,000 grants went to the University of Michigan, where researchers were able to make a major (and very hopeful) discovery about the blood-brain barrier and how scientists might be able to get cleanse the brain of plaques with medications etc. through that barrier to more effectively treat, combat, or possible someday prevent Alzheimer's Disease. Read about it here:
Art Quilters Finance New Alzheimer’s Discovery!This is from a previous entry in Ami's blog:
"Our treasurer Debbie Chenail wrote checks for three of those studies on the same day. I signed them, with very moist eyes. We had two volunteers here getting the 1,000 quilts ready for Houston and before the checks went into the mail (in priority mailers, of course) the four of us each held a corner of the envelopes and we wished them Godspeed.
For us, and for most of those involved with the AAQI, this is personal. We know someone with the disease and we know how horrid Alzheimer’s is. And we want so badly to find a cure.
The Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative isn’t like other charities. We are all volunteers, we account publicly for every penny that we spend, and we hold impromptu ceremonies before we mail checks because we know what it feels like to lose someone we love one memory at time. And we know what it feels like to make a quilt and pray with each stitch that our work will help win the fight. Isn’t that the kind of charity you want to support?"
For every one who has ever donated to
AAQI- those who have made a quilt or quilts, those who have purchased a quilt or quilts....thank you so very, very much.
