The AAQI October Auction Is Amazing!

The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative  September Auction is about to begin!  And I am so very proud to have a quilt of my own now available for bidding during this amazing collection of quilts in this September 1-10, 2012 auction.

I can only hope and pray that my own little quilt, filled with the beauty of nature, poetry, music, and spirit, along with all of the others below,  will raise an impacting amount of money in the fight against Alzheimer's Disease as all profits go towards that funding.

The October Online Quilt Auction Starts October 1st!

12,000 - Outside Juneau, AK 2012
And please do note, the most amazing little quilt, shown small image, above.....the 12,000th one to be donated to AAQI !

It's a beautiful quilt by award-winning quilter and teacher Charlotte Warr Andersen and it will be included in our October online quilt auction (October 1-10).

Representing a beautiful cove in my own Juneau, Alaska ...oh, how it makes me homesick for my little island home in Douglas, Alaska..just across the Gastineau Channel from Juneau.

I-0401 - Hope for a Cure	10,178 - Spring	10,450 - Discombobulated
10,505 - Ramblings	10,510 - Departmentalized	10,623 - Blowing in the Wind
10,624 - Pretty Plumes	10,626 - Grandma's Cat, Snoopy	10,628 - A Soft Place to Land
10,629 - Forget Me Not My Love	10,687 - Serene Passage	10,749 - Monarch
10,850 - Sun Kissed Arrangement	10,861 - The Rescue	11,016 - Sunscape
11,042 - Bohemian Dreams	11,086 - Song of the Hills	11,111 - Robin
11,158 - Fractured Memories	11,275 - Out For A Stroll	11,640 - Sh'rooms
11,651 - Standing Alone	11,652 - Little Armored One	11,653 - Attention Getter
11,654 - Sunburned Elephant	11,655 - Mr. Chameleon Thinks Change is Good	12,000 - Outside Juneau, AK 2012
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The October Online Quilt Auction Starts October 1st!
 
More AAQI News!!!

 August 2012 was the most successful month in AAQI history for selling Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts online. (http://www.alzquilts.org/quiltsforsale.html)   The AAQI sold 248 quilts bringing in $13,469. The average price per quilt (and this includes the monthly online quilt auctions) was $54.31. The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative has raised more than $763,000 for research since it began in January 2006. The AAQI prides itself on transparency with an online explanation of every dollar earned and spent. See the "Show Me The Money" page at http://www.alzquilts.org/show.html

Thanks to the incredible generosity of the quilting community, the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative will be bringing MORE than 2,000 quilts to sell at International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX (Oct 31-Nov 4). With a month to go (before the shipping deadline) more than 1,600 quilts have already been tagged and bagged and are waiting to be shipped. In  2011 the AAQI offered approximately 1,200 quilts for sale.

The AAQI will be putting out a call for helpers to staff the booth at IQF Houston. Please follow the AAQIUpdate blog (http://aaqiupdate.wordpress.com/) for announcements and sign-ups. Follow the AAQI on FaceBook at https://www.facebook.com/AAQI.News

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!