I've been busy!
Trying to get as many small format art quilts made and donated to the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) as I can before AAQI heads off the Houston International Quilt Festival in November.
Not much time left to create, register, and mail in your own quilts! The very last day (ever!) to register a quilt for donation is August 1, 2013.
This will be a bittersweet milestone for me! I have loved, loved, loved making and donating my own 60 plus small format art quilts. I have loved helping out Ami Simms by keeping lists of online bloggers, newspapers, websites, and others who share our news, I having loved submitting stuff for the meetings of the Board of Director's, for the ongoing blogger's email list and maintaining our own Liberated Challenge group page for AAQI, this blog, and making contact with all of the Liberated Quilters out there..inviting you to join us, encouraging you to make more quilts..all of it!
But it has also been a huge amount of work per week/per month/each day during a time of incredible stress for our own family.
But boy, did it hep me focus! It gave me something else to do besides the endless care giving, or the endless blogging about myself and my own projects. It let me focus on all of you, on AAQI, and doing the most I could each and every month to earn money for Alzheimer's research funding.
So, to all of you who donated quilts through this little group of mine..and we had a few over thirty total quilters, but by the end only about six of you who have kept on, keeping on! Bless you!
Whether you only made 1 quilt or 75, you are appreciated and cherished! Between all of us, this small group of committed quilters has donated over 600 quilts in just 2 1/2 years. That is a lot of quilts for a core group of about 12 or 15 quilters to create! Amazing, amazing woman..all of you.
(I do wish you had sent me information as you registered your quilts..almost every one of you forgot, even when reminded. And that made a lot more searching and looking online for me to come up with my monthly list of Liberated Quilting Challenge page quilts. But...boy, did it help me keep my own brain sharp!!!)
Last day to register one of your quilts for a QAM...Quilt of the Month...is the month of July. Your quilt must be registered by July 20, 2013. Remember, if you don't make the deadline, you can still BUY a quilt by the 25th of both June and July.
But the last day to register is August 1, 2013 and mail the quilts in by the 20th or purchase one to be your QAM by the 25th. Give Kathy your QAM registration number by the 28th of July...very, very last chance for a QAM!
AAQI QAM rules to remember and a link:
Please be aware of these important dates, established so the volunteers administering this project can have a life, too....as Ami has said. We have all worked so hard, and don't need it one bit harder ;)
- Register the quilt you make from the 1st to the 20th of the month. OR
- Purchase a quilt from the 1st to the 25th of the month.
- QAM Notification: Email QuiltAMonthClub@gmail.com by the 28th of the month with your quilt number.
