AAQI Quilt Now for Sale

A lot of AAQI quilters have commented that when they try to promote the sale of their own quilts, a potential buyer will say "My house is modern."  And show no interest in AAQI quilts whether at a guild presentation, at a quilt show like the one in Houston, or just online when I ask them to consider buying a quilt and supporting this wonderful cause.


I assume that "my house is modern' .....and they don't mean the modern quilt movement..that it means that to them quilts are seen as 'old fashioned.'

So, with my AAQI quilting, I created what I think of as a "modern decorator" quilt. Perfect for someone who loves and buys art ....but not quilts!  Featuring the bright green that so many love but with some blues, as well.

This was made with some vintage decorating fabrics that are simply pieced, echo quilted and a bit of raw edge applique'.  The idea is a representation of the merging, the blending of one culture, one energy of polarized opposites, into the other...as seen by the circles of unification flowing over into the other..which side to which is ambiguous..that part doesn't matter.

Feel the blend, feel the unity and let your own polarized opposites accept one another!

I present, now up for sale at its own AAQI website page...East Meets West.  

Remember  ALL profits from the purchase of this quilt goes from AAQI towards grants for Alzheimer's Research funding..one of my newest small format art quilts:

13,161 - East Meets West

$50.00

Michele Bilyeu
Salem, OR USA
Width: 12" Length: 9"
Materials/Techniques: Linen, sailcloth, and polished cottons with raw edge appliqué and free motion design stitching.
Artist Statement: I love the amazing variety of styles and types of quilts that are available to all of us, today. I wanted to work with a high impact, modern quilting approach, but with one that also incorporated the graceful elements of artistic design, as well.
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Dedication: For anyone who loves the both the beauty and grace of the traditional eastern influences, as well as the striking modernity of the western impact of artistic expression.
This quilt has Fast Finish Triangles.

Michele Bilyeu blogs With Heart and Hands as she shares a quilting journey through her life in Salem, Oregon and Douglas, Alaska. 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!

AAQI March "Name Quilts" Auction

The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) "Name Quilts"  are becoming available and the first 26 of them are up for bidding in the March auction.
 
The name quilts are part of "Alzheimer's Illustrated: From Heartbreak to Hope" a nationally touring exhibit of quilts about Alzheimer's sponsored by the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative. They can be seen above, as they surround my own quilts on exhibit, as well as 53 other small format art quilts.

The exhibit began touring in 2011 and will travel until the end of September 2013 for a total of 14 showings. The exhibit features 236 quilts: 182 Name Quilts and 54 Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts selected for their Alzheimer's related theme.

 The "Name Quilts" measure about 6 inches wide about 7 feet long. They have Velcro tabs instead sleeves. Each has about 55 purple patches, each marked with the name of a person who has/had Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia, written by a friend or family member.

 The "wrong" side of the fabric patches are showing. The color intentionally faded. The bright side of the cloth, full of the color and pattern of life, has been turned to the inside of the quilt, never to be seen again.

These quilts honor the 5.4 million people in the United States who have Alzheimer's. Quilts will be folded and shipped to you in a legal size priority flat rate mailer for approximately $5.25.

 If you win more than one auction between now and October we will only combine orders and ship your winning quilts together in one box if you tell us in the comment section of your order.

I submitted about two dozen names for this exhibit...half of them from my own families and the other half I collected from one of my community sewing groups. After collecting the names from my friends, I read through them before I packed them away. I was amazed to discover one of my friends..in the group and present that day..among the names submitted.

Here she was, this sweet, dear little lady and she had already been diagnosed with this horrible disease. I'm pretty sure it was her daughter, who was also present in the group that day, who wrote her name but it ripped through me as surely as writing my own family members names did when I wrote and read them, as well.  All of those names are among these 'Name Quilts'. 

For More info read here....http://www.alzquilts.org/quiltauction.html

Name Quilt #1	Name Quilt #2	Name Quilt #3	Name Quilt #4
Name Quilt #5	Name Quilt #6	Name Quilt #7	Name Quilt #8
Name Quilt #9	Name Quilt #10	Name Quilt #11	Name Quilt #12
Name Quilt #13	Name Quilt #14	Name Quilt #15	Name Quilt #16
Name Quilt #17	Name Quilt #18	Name Quilt #19	Name Quilt #20
Name Quilt #21	Name Quilt #22	Name Quilt #23	Name Quilt #24
Name Quilt #25	Name Quilt #26	Auto Bid & Popcorn Bidding

The March Online Quilt Auction Has Begun!

Own a piece of history! Name Quilts #1-#26 from the AAQI's traveling exhibit "Alzheimer's Illustrated: From Heartbreak to Hope" (see video below) are on auction now through March 10. To see if your loved one's name is on one of the 26 auction quilts offered during March, search here.

BID NOW!

 

 Michele Bilyeu blogs With Heart and Hands as she shares a quilting journey through her life in Salem, Oregon and Douglas, Alaska. 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!