The members of the Liberated Quilters Challenge have created some beautiful, small format quilts that are currently for sale at the AAQI website.
Please check out our AAQI group challenge web page and click on 'add to cart' to purchase one or more of these delightful quilts.
These are some outstanding quilts by some truly talented, and giving quilters. I am so very proud of them and their dedication to the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative.
The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (www.AlzQuilts.org) is a national, grassroots charity whose mission is to raise awareness and fund research. The AAQI auctions and sells donated quilts, and sponsors a nationally touring exhibit of quilts about Alzheimer's. The AAQI has raised more than $713,000 since January 2006.
Ami Simms of Flint, Michigan is the founder and executive director of the AAQI, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit operated entirely by volunteers. She is a quilter. Her mother had Alzheimer's.
The AAQI currently sponsors two major programs:
Alzheimer's Illustrated: From Heartbreak to Hope
A nationwide traveling quilt exhibit called "Alzheimer's Illustrated: From Heartbreak to Hope." It features 182 "Name Quilts" six inches wide and seven feet tall, containing the names of more than 10,000 individuals who have or had Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia. Hanging among the Name Quilts are 53 small format art quilts (9" x 12") that each interpret Alzheimer's in some way. The exhibit will tour the United States for 5 years.
Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts
The second is the "Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts" project, so named for the urgent need for research dollars and the hope that quilters across the country would make participation in this project a priority. These small quilts fit inside flat rate cardboard priority mailers from the USPS, which the group uses to ship quilts to winning bidders after monthly online auctions.
There are an estimated 5.4 million Americans with Alzheimer's disease. We believe we can make a difference, one quilt at a time.
Check out all of the quilts shown above on our quilts for sale:
Liberated Quilters Challenge: Quilts for Sale...look for the add to cart logo
Check out all of the AAQI quilts now for sale
Michele Bilyeu Quilts With Heart and Hands for the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) Join in my Liberated Quilting Challenge...and buy or donate a quilt, today!! We are changing the world...one little quilt at a time.
Michele Bilyeu Quilts With Heart and Hands for the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) Join in my Liberated Quilting Challenge...and buy or donate a quilt, today!! We are changing the world...one little quilt at a time.
