The Azheimer's Art Quilt Initiative February Aucton begins on February 1 and runs through February 10, 2012 and I am so delighted to have another one of my art quilts be a part of this wonderful group!
Place a starting bid of just $40 and you might still end up winning one of our beautiful and unique quilts! It's that easy to do and that easy to win. Each $5 increment gives each new viewer to chance to snag the win away from the last biddder. $5 by $5. And all it takes is a moment's inattention near the 10th day...and you're the winner!
Check out our groups lovely quilts among the lucky few at auction in February...tell your family and friends to bid on a quilt and give them as Valentine's Day gifts in memory of a loved one.
Kristin Shields
Width: 8.75" Length: 11.75"
Materials/Techniques: Cotton and linen fabric, cotton embroidery floss, some materials hand dyed, free piecing, needle-turn appliqu�, hand and machine stitching.
Artist Statement: This quilt started as a class sample. I decided to embellish it and make it for AAQI. Before too long it began to remind me of the tulip fields of the Pacific Northwest.
Kristin Shields
Debra Spincic
Montgomery, TX USA
Width: 8.5" Length: 11"
Materials/Techniques: Crazy quilt patchwork, machine embroidery, buttons and a charm.
Artist Statement: This small quilt was made from a crazy quilt block a friend gave me.
I added some machine embroidery and embellishments to give it a Victorian Look.
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Dedication: To the innocence of youth.
This quilt has a Hanging Ring.
Michele Bilyeu
Salem, OR USA
Width: 11.75" Length: 9"
Materials/Techniques: Cotton fabrics, soy wax crayons, fabric paint and glitter, free motion stitching and beading on the back.
Artist Statement: Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state." We can see this in the changes of life, of time, and in the states of being from birth to death. Yet, even Alzheimer's disease cannot take away from the true power of the human spirit as it seeks to evolve by disintegration, into a reintegration we cannot always see, or understand.
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Dedication: For my beloved father who has already passed, with great love and great power, into his own transitioned state of being.
This quilt has a Hanging Ring.
Debra Spincic
Montgomery, TX USA
Width: 7.75" Length: 11.75"
Materials/Techniques: Satin damask with machine embroidery and quilting.
Artist Statement: This is one of three panels designed, embroidered and quilted on my embroidery machine. My intent was to highlight the beautiful Jacobean embroidered design as simply and elegantly as possible.
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Kristin Shields
Bend, OR USA
Width: 8" Length: 9.5"
Materials/Techniques: Needle turn appliqu�, hand dyed cotton and linen, commercial quilting cotton, hand dyed and commercially dyed embroidery floss, free hand embroidery, shell beads, plastic button, hand quilting and the edges are enclosed with a facing. All the stitching is done by hand except the pieced background and the facing. In addition to the fabric label, this quilt has my embroidered initials on the back.
Artist Statement: This bird just popped out of my head and onto the fabric and before I knew it she had become a whole personality. The phrase, "be yourself", came to me while working on it and I ended up stitching the words right on the front. I really love this piece and see it as my true creative nature coming forth. This is my own original, one of a kind design.
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This quilt has a Hanging Ring.
My Quilt is 8736 The Power of Transition and of course, I'd especially love it if someone could open it's bidding today :)
Michele Bilyeu Quilts With Heart and Hands for the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) Join in my Liberated Quilting Challenge...and buy or donate a quilt, today!! We are changing the world...one little quilt at a time.
some beautiful work being done for this cause. i enjoy seeing it and knowing that there are people in this world who care.
ReplyDeletepeople who care to create for a good cause (any good cause~!) as well as the people who care to bring that cause to the attention of others. like you Michele~!~
thank you for the reminder and the tiny show of tiny quilts with BIG hearts behind them.
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libbyQ
Lovely post Michele! Thanks for featuring my quilts. Bid on!
ReplyDeleteHope the auction goes well for you all!
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Cancer Treatment Guide
Michele, your group's quilts are wonderful! So glad to see how our little AAQI has blossomed and grown into such an amazing group of volunteers. Keep up the good works!!
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