Michele Bilyeu's AAQI Quilting Challenge has now officially ended due to the closing of AAQI and our reaching and surpassing our goal of earning $1,000,000 for Alzheimer's Disease Research!!!! Thank you for continuing to write me and offer your support. And bless your heart if you JUST wrote me and wanted to make quilts for our group because your loved one was just diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease!!!
My Liberated Quilting Challenge ran from 2010 up until December 2013. With our quilts being donated right up until the deadline of August 1, 2013. It was an amazing run by less than 3 dozen quilters in this AAQI Group Challenge creating somewhere between 600 and 650 quilts! Amazing!!!!!
The following description is no longer applicable except as a keepsake of all that we did for for the 3 years we created, donated, and sold so many fabulous quilts through and for the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI)!
(AAQI disbanded by the end of 2013 after reaching our goal of earning ONE MILLION DOLLARS for Alzheimer's Research. Because the site is no longer active, most links and photos below no longer work. )
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.
For additional information, or to join in with our online quilting group, please contact
Michele Bilyeu...no longer applicable!...charitable organization has reached its goal and ended!
Due to the removal of the original AAQI site, all if my photos can no longer link, unless I personally have them stored. My desktop computer is no longer operable and I blog, facebook, moderate my other groups, by use of my mobile phone and its cellular signal
Excuse typos and my continual updatibg. In progress!
My own online quilting griup, this group, The Liberated Quiltibg Challenge photos will be however be viwed in my online Picasa album at this link currently in progress!
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It is no longer possible to donate a Priority: Alzheimer's Quilt. Between January 2006 and August 2013 the AAQI has received more than 15,600 donated quilts. We commend the quilters who threaded their needles to make funding Alzheimer's research a priority in their lives.