Quilters and Quilting Make a Difference! (Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative)

I am thrilled beyond words that one of the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiatives funding of reasearch grants, this one at Cornell University, has contributed to reasearch discoveries in breaking through the blood-brain-flow barrier! This is amazingly promising!

My blog header consists of several of the 75 small format art quilts (among thousands of quilters) that I personally donated for auction by our amazing founder, leader, quilter, and quilt creator Ami Simms from our raising of over One Million Dollars earned by their sales from 2006-2013. 

Amazing, amazing work and kudos to all involved at every level of funding and this research and discovery at Cornell University!

And for all of you who joined my two internet groups and made and donated 600  8" x 11 " small format art quilts for sale by AAQI, thank you and bless you!

Everyone reading here, check out the link below by Science Daily! 

AAQI is thanked on Science Daily's release of Cornell Universitys discovery right along with the National Institute of Health!

Love it and all who were involved in any way!

One more example of how quilters and quilting makes a difference!

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190211164005.htm?fbclid=IwAR06hDD5MOXblBeGYwheOZSunhcz1W9lyXWdMBNTQ-EAgsRwhGn12MmcqlI

"The team has identified approximately 20 drugs, many of them already FDA approved for human use, that have potential in dementia therapy and are screening these drugs in Alzheimer's mice now.

Schaffer said he's "super-optimistic" that, if the same capillary-blocking mechanism is at play in humans as it is in mice, this line of research "could be a complete game-changer for people with Alzheimer's disease."

This research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative, and the Brightfocus Foundation."

My personal links:

 Heartbreak to Hope

Liberated Quilting Challenge




Ami Simms current personal blog:

https://amisimms.com

Michele Bilyeu Creates With Heart and Hands as she shares her imaginative, magical, and healing journey from Alaska to Oregon. Creating, designing, sewing, quilting, and wildcrafting... from my heart and with my hands.Science Daily: Alzheimer's Research Breaks the Blood-Brain Barrier

Alzheimer's Illustrated: From Heartbreak to Hope..Final Auction Quilts for AAQI

It is an incredibly bittersweet experience to have my two small format quilts from the Alzheimer's Illustrated: From Heartbreak to Hope exhibit, up at the AAQI  December Auction.

This is my last chance to not only sell the 4 little art quilts that I still have available for sale at the AAQI website...quick link to mine, here...and look for the 'add to cart' buttons. And it also the last chance that we have to sell our quilts where the winning prices have the best chance of adding research funding monies to our coffers.

Alzheimer's Illustrated: My Own Heartbreak to Hope

The December 2013 Quilt Auction
Starts Sunday, December 1st.

(This auction website has been hosted, free of charge by BenefitBidding)

Please at least visit the site, and click on my two clicks to see them up close, and personal and see how they are currently doing at auction.  

This will be our last online auction... forever and ever.  AAQI closes up and finishes up all loose ends by December 31,  2013. 

Please support me, make at least an opening bid, today!,  on one of my two auction quilts to jumpstart their bidding, up their bids during the course of the ten day auction perio, or go for the goal by popcorn bidding and winning one of my two quilts up for auction during December 1-10, 2013.

Or please please please, spend as little as $33.25 and buy one of my four remaining 'sale' quilts, now! 



As for my two AAQI December Auction Quilts from the nationally touring Alzheimer's Illustrated from Heartbreak to Hope touring exhibit:

My first quilt was made in honor of my mother ,Mama's Brain Got Tangles...but Mama's Still Inside and my second one, The Alzheimer's Prayer, was made in honor of my father ,who literally died trying to lift my mother up from the bed, the floor after she repeatably collapsed, from mental disconnect over and over, and upright and sitting as we tried to feed her...over and over, day after day, for three years of her life that he and I tried so hard to care for her, together .

Both of my parents passed on during the next and final three years and it has been a heartbreaking experience to lose both of my parents when I worked so very hard to not only keep them alive and as mentally active as I possibly could. 

In Memory: Nell Grace Savikko
Born 9-1-1925 St. Martinville, Louisiana
Died 9-8-2013 Douglas, Alaska
Love you and miss you, my sweet little mama

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Quilt #5211 - Mama's Brain Got Tangles...but Mama's Still Inside

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Quilt #6399 - The Alzheimer's Prayer

My second quilt was made in honor of my Finnish father, Bernhart Michael (Ben) Savikko.  He died at age 93, after having two heart attacks as a result of the oxygen deprivation that comes from a combination of from sleep apnea and its resulting Vascular Dementia. The loss of my father was a kind of heart breaking, I can barely describe. I traveled to and from Alaska four times in 2010 to help care for both my mother and my father, and last saw my father, one month before he passed, when he had said to me: "Why do you have to leave so soon. Can't you stay a little longer?" and his final words after my own "I love you so much, Dad!" he replied "I love you dearly, too, Michele."

Bernhart Michael (Ben) Savikko

Born January 15, 1917 in Douglas, Alaska

Died August 21, 2010 in Douglas, Alaska

Love you and miss you so much, Daddy

Look at all of the AAQI December Auction Quilts:

Or simply buy one of my small format art quilts that range from the first one at $47.50 to the other three, each at $33.25.

 When The Heart Grieves...For Sale at AAQI...vintage fabric with art quilting effects and ink jet printing quotation.

13,891 - When The Heart Grieves

Regular price: $50.00

Sale price: $47.50

13891


My indoor/outdoor Prayer Flags:

14,931 - Blessings of Faith

Regular price: $35.00

Sale price: $33.25

14931

14,932 - Blessings of Hope

Regular price: $35.00

Sale price: $33.25

14,934 - Blessings of Love

Regular price: $35.00

Sale price: $33.25

14934

Natural Burlap (imported jute burlap from India with hand crochet, machine embroidery, and other accents) for indoor/outdoor prayer flags. Just thread some jute twine through the sleeve to hang on in your entry way, in your garden, or in your own healing and memory spaces in your home.

Alzheimer's Illustrated: My Own Heartbreak to Hope

Michele Bilyeu blogs With Heart and Hands as she shares a quilting journey through her life in Salem, Oregon and Douglas, Alaska. Sewing, quilting, and wildcrafting, with small format art quilts, prayer flags, and comfort quilts for a variety of charitable programs, including the  Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) . And best of all, sharing thousands of links to Free Quilt and Quilt Block Patterns and encouraging others to join her and make and donate quilts to charitable causes.   Help us change the world, one little quilt at a time!

Quiltmaker Magazine and the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI)

Imagine my delight this morning, when I opened Quiltmaker Magazine's Online Blog and discovered that Diane Harris had not only written about the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) and our April online auction, but showcased several of our quilts...beginning with mine!

How absolutely wonderful of them! A bit of a shock to be staring at my own auction quilt but also total delight as I am so happy for any extra publicity to this wonderful cause..and hey, a little shout out always feels really personally good, too!

My art quilt #9125 - Change and Transition is currently up at auction and is now up for bidding with the current bid sitting at $95. Check it and all of the other quilts out and please do consider bidding on any of these wonderful quilts. I would personally love having my quilt raise as much as it possibly can, I can't help it!

Thank to Diane Harris and the Quiltmaker online blog for this wonderful piece about AAQI and our charitable efforts, and accomplishments! And hey, it put a great big smile on my face today, too :)

Liberated Quilting Challenge

AAQI Celebrates: 10,000 Quilts!

Check out all of my links to free quilt patterns, blocks, tutorials, and crafts!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 her Liberated Quilting Challenge for the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) Help us change the world, one little quilt at a time!

Falling Off the Auction Block

Today is the first day of the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative's April auction
and for reasons I do not understand..my quilt #9125 - Change and Transition was suddenly removed from the auction site! I am so upset and so disappointed (and embarrassed) I can hardly stand it!!!!!

Apparently, it ended up measuring just a tad bit too large to be legal and to be fair to the rules and regulations set by AAQI..it had to be pulled!

April Fool's!

It is officially up at auction and the auction opened today!But! and this is no joke! my quilt does not have a single bid on it yet. Please, please can someone give it a jumpstart and an opening bid of $40? I hate being stuck behind the gate, or the last one out of it, when it is for such a special cause and so important to me and to my family! And besides! I LOVE this quilt and want it to go to a good home!

Thanks for all of your support. Just check out my quilt and let it have an enlarged viewing at #9125 - Change and Transition

Love all of your and Happy April's Fool Day!

And please do bid on my quilt and keep the bidding going. All proceeds from the sale of all of the quilts fund Alzheimer's research.

Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative's April auction

My Quilt #9125 - Change and Transition

Check out all of my links to free quilt patterns, blocks, tutorials, and crafts!

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 her Liberated Quilting Challenge for the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) Help us change the world, one little quilt at a time!

The Power of Transition

Bids will remain open until the end of the day, February 10, 2012, at 10:00 pm, on my AAQI art quilt:

8738 - The Power of Transition

Width: 11.75" Length: 9"

Designer: Original design

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.


Dedication: For my beloved father who has already passed, with great love and great power, into his own transitioned state of being.
Remember: All profits from the auction of this little quilt go directly towards Alzheimer's research funding!

And please note:
My previous post on Potholder Therapy and Kitchen Love did not appear on blog links or google reader, so be sure to check it out below!

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.

New AAQI Auction Begins!

My little angel is flying high in the AAQI December Quilt Auction and in such prestigious company...I think she is even blushing!

I-393 In Memory of Mary … Jenny Raymond (Gothenburg, NE)
I-394 Symmetry … Paula Nadelstern (Bronx, NY)
I-395 A Ray of Hope, Curing Alzheimer's Disease Piece by Piece … Susan Paine (Houston, TX)
#6241 The Tree at Midnight … Kendra J. Dowd (Arlington, MA)
#6327 Cardinals in the Holly … Barbara Beaumont (Hubbardston, MA)
#6405 Holiday Sunbonnet Sue … Frances Berrios (Manassas, VA)
#6409 Time for Santa … Bobbie Kelly (Woodbridge, VA)
#6439 Fly Away Home … Michele Bilyeu (Salem, OR)
#6605 Winter Cardinal … Jean Cheszek (Palatine, IL)
#7014 Winter Solstice … Janice Timmons (Longmont, CO)
#7047 Ribbon Tree … Nancy Rogers (Hendersonville, NC)
#7464 Seedling … Nancy Urschel (Valparaiso, IN)
#7475 Tis the Season … Charlotte Rayl (Eagan, MN)
#7779 The 3 Sisters … Andrea Balosky (Mungpoo, West Bengal India)
#7791 Driven Snow… Marlene Woodfield (LaPorte, IN)
#8020 Remembering Henry's Homestead … Barbara Dowdy-Trabke (Reno, NV)
#8025 Bobby … Barbara Dowdy-Trabke (Reno, NV)
#8178 Mini in Kimono … Yumi Tsuruta (Saitama Japan)
#8281 Blaze … Melody Crust (Kent, WA)
#8284 Our Lady … Donna Barnitz (Rio Rancho, NM)
#8316 Happy Village … Jeanie Sakrison Velarde (Cordova, TN)
#8317 Cityscape … Jeanie Sakrison Velarde (Cordova, TN)
#8394 Asian Orchid … Lorna Milano (Media, PA)
#8397 Give Peace a Chance … Cheryl Lynch (Broomall, PA)
#8443 Savannah … Tove Sondergaard (Phoenix, AZ)
#8505 Phoenix … Ann Louise Mullard-Pugh (Las Vegas, NV)
#8515 Art Deco … Audrey Arno (Tuttle, OK

Check out the auction.

The first three are invitational quilts in larger sizes by some truly amazing celebrity quilters, but the rest include some famous art quilters, quilters from Japan and India, and then well...me ;)

I'm proud and honored to be included in this group but oh! I can't help but hope mine will at least garner a couple of bids!!! Oh my...such a group to have been included in!

So...if you can't afford to bid on Paula Nadelstern's invitational quilt and you know there is no way you can beat the mad crazy rush to win Andrea Balosky's.....well, don't forget angels are wonderful to have around any time of the year ;)

December Quilt Auction
Starts Thursday!
All profits fund Alzheimer's research!

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.