These darling little quilts have all been created by the members of the Liberated Quilting Challenge and are currently for sale by the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI)
The Liberated Quilting Challenge, is a small group of online bloggers and quilters, brought together by the invitation of quilter and group moderator, Michele Bilyeu.
Members of the Liberated Quilting Challenge group share a common goal of exploring new ways of incorporating creative quilting into our own unique styles. Quilts can be free-pieced, strip-pieced, fused, embroidered, or appliqued, or use any other expression or artistic elements as long as they are within the durability, handling, and storage requirements of AAQI. We seek to provide an opportunity for members to learn from one another through our blogs, message boards and web links, and to think in a liberated and "outside of the box" artistic format.
Information and directions for making an AAQI quilt for our group can be found at Liberated Challenge Group Instructions on our updated Liberated Quilting Challenge Blog. This site will also showcase individual quilts and quilters and update members on the latest news provided by the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative including the latest news on research funding, exhibits, and traveling quilt shows.
Our virtual quilting group of about 40 quilters banded together in 2010, and in just two years have created over 500 quilts for AAQI. We create them, register them, ship them off for documentation, and presentation on their own AAQI webpages. There, they are put up for direct sale or selected for the AAQI monthly auction.
Again...all profits from the sale of these quilts goes directly towards Alzheimer's research funding. And we thank all of you who purchase them as they are our 'babies' and we love each and every one that we create!
Please offer them a happy home by buying one..or more...for hanging in your art or sewing studios, your kitchen nooks, your private meditation or bedroom areas, or even on stairway groupings or in your family rooms. Show your support for a truly wonderful cause and purchase one or a small group of them.... and create your own art wall, today!
AAQI Liberated Quilting Challenge Instructions
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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!
