We are over the moon!
During the four and a
half days at International Quilt Festival in Houston last week the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) sold 1,597 quilts earning $75,000 for the AAQI!!!!
You can read more
about it on the AAQI Update blog:
But as Ami Simms has written:
" I am humbled and honored and…..EXHAUSTED! International Quilt Festival was incredible! We sold 1,597 quilts and raised $75,000 for the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative!
This represents the largest amount of money raised by the AAQI at one time ever. We beat last year by $13,000. Most importantly, this means more money for research. Our Scientific Advisory Board is considering three grant applications right now for funding.
International Quilt Festival ROCKED!
" I am humbled and honored and…..EXHAUSTED! International Quilt Festival was incredible! We sold 1,597 quilts and raised $75,000 for the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative!
This represents the largest amount of money raised by the AAQI at one time ever. We beat last year by $13,000. Most importantly, this means more money for research. Our Scientific Advisory Board is considering three grant applications right now for funding.
Or, for a quick and
condensed version see our official press release:
Congratulations to the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) Help us change the world, one little quilt at a time!
quilt shown above:
Changing the World by Michele Bilyeu.
Now in the Volkening Collection as part of Bill Volkening's personal collection of AAQI quilts.
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!
