The amazing, Jan Stone, of our own Liberated Quilting Challenge, has just completed her 100th quilt! Way to go, Jan! Jan is a wonderfully fun quilter, and an awesome creator of quilts that she donates for the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI)
Check out Jan's blog at:
and leave a comment to thank and congratulate her for all of her creativity and dedication to AAQI. She is one awesome lady!
And our Liberated Quilting Challenge member, Jenny Mullens has a quilt in the September quilt auction!!
It's it just so dear? This is the kind of tender art quilt that can touch one's heart when you think about all of the variations of it's meaning.
Do check out Jenny's delicate eco-dyed silk fabric art quilt made with embroidery, beads and other lovely design elements! Enlarge it and see it up close and personal on site to truly appreciate the details and tender colors.
Please stop by and check out ALL of the beautiful quilts, check out the Sales Page and as
And as quilt registrar Beth Hartford says of all of our viewers, readers, and site checker outers:
"May they all buy a quilt (or two)!!"
Come on down to the Auction site, the Sales Page, and buy a quilt (or two)!!
Come on down to the Auction site, the Sales Page, and buy a quilt (or two)!!
Liberated Quilting Challenge group members have a number of them for sale and many, many of them going to Houston!!! See the quilts added so far to the Houston list of quilts at:
And super duper wonderful....our fearless leader, Ami Simms makes the news in Woman's Day magazine as some one who truly makes a difference.
You better believe she does! Thanks Ami for all of your hard, hard work and thanks Woman's Day for featuring her and AAQI!!!! If Ami has never had the chance to talk to you on the phone and she has called a LOT of us...here's Ami ...listen to her dear voice as she celebrates this news!!!
Woo Hoo, Ami!!!
AMI and AAQI in Woman’s Day Magazine!
What a terrific opportunity to reach an even wider audience!
The AAQI website is listed and Ami's fingers are crossed that readers will come to www.AlzQuilts.org and get involved.
What can you do to help?
1. Share the video below and this blog.
2. Write an email to Woman’s Day and thank them for featuring the AAQI: womansday@hearst.com. Tell them how you are involved with our efforts to fight Alzheimer’s.
3. Contact another magazine, a television show, a radio program and point out that the AAQI is newsworthy.
Ami Simms is the Founder & Executive Director of Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI)
Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative.
And just what is the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative?
Read my post here:
And ....
Watch Founder & Executive Director Ami Simms on The Quilt Show and learn all about it!
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!
