Members
of the Liberated Quilting Challenge group have shared a common goal of
exploring new ways of incorporating creative quilting into our own
unique styles. Our quilts may be free-pieced, strip-pieced, fused,
embroidered, or appliqued, or have used any other expression or artistic
elements as long as they were within the durability, handling, and
storage requirements of the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI)
We were formed in 2010 after I had decided that all of the new blogging quilters I had met online needed a way to explore their own versions of liberated quilting and to provide an opportunity for
members to learn from one another through our blogs, message boards and
web links. Our biggest encouragement is to think in a liberated and "outside of the box" artistic
format no matter what level that might be for each of us, individually!
We are one of the largest, if not the largest, of quilting groups to have donated small format art quilts to the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) and have donated well over 640 quilts in just a bit over 2 1/2 years. I am so very proud of these quilters, and their quilts!
As this is the last year for AAQI, and all registration for donating new quilts in now closed, every one is now encouraged to buy quilts for sale and/or make monetary donations as the profits from all of our sales go to fund Alzheimer's Disease research. We are trying to reach our $1,000,000 goal before the end of this year.
Here are all of our group quilts to date: The ones for sale are easy to spot by the signage...."Add to Cart!" Please do...add even just one to the easy purchasing format.
And the latest news from AAQI?
Here it is from our founder Ami Simms in a nutshell with links:
Bidders in the September auction just raised $3,154 for the AAQI.
http://www.alzquilts.org/aaaw1foralre.html
The October online auction (Oct. 1-10, 2013)features quilts from "Alzheimer's Illustrated: From Heartbreak to Hope" as does the December online auction.
Ami Simms
Founder & Executive Director
Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative
www.AlzQuilts.org
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!