Welcome to the world of Liberated Quilting and a Liberated Quilting Group Challenge. My name is Michele Bilyeu and I have joined forces with Clare, to offer liberated quilters everywhere a chance to join in a fabulous new quilting opportunity!
I am a contributing member of two Liberating Quilting rings...the blogging world of Liberated Quilting and the Liberated Quilters Message Board. I am excited to unite both groups (and anyone else who wants to join) in this new Liberated Challenge for this brand New Year!
I am throwing the quilting glove into the ring for all liberated quilting bloggers, all liberated quilters on the message board, and to anyone who wishes to explore liberated quilting to join in this challenge. If you don't feel liberated yet, join in and discover how you can suddenly throw quilting rules out the window and join in some quilted fun.
As members of a new "Liberated Quilters: Liberated Challenge" group for the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative, we are seeking creative input (ie. tiny, little donated 'art' quilts) from liberated quilters everywhere...those who would love to participate here (and are on our waiting list) and those of you who have already accepted membership....in either of the two current groups, or any one who is willing and able to just join in with this challenge!
The challenge begins today, New Years Day 2010 and is completely open to ANYONE who quilts!
The only rules of this Liberated Challenge are those already set in motion by Ami Simms, the director of the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative. They are quite simple...each quilt must be able to fit into a "Priority Mail" envelope (available completely for free from your local post office) and they can be no larger than 9" x 12".....however, they can be smaller, and they can also be a standard 4" x 6" fabric postcard!
You are encouraged to write about and show your quilt's process on your blog, or to discuss its progress on the message board, and to actively encourage other quilters to participate! I am even willing to act as a Temporary Quilt Registration Goddess for anyone with a friend or family member who wants to participate (but without Internet access) or for those needing additional help with problems or questions.
To enter this fabulous Liberated Challenge...we need to add you (even if you think you can make one little postcard!) to maintain some kind of organizational framework and we are using that of the Yahoo group to record your name and email address. Simply go to to Liberated Quilters Message Board, add your name to the list through Clare, and receive a membership listing.
All quilts must conform to the standards and sizing regulations of the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative, and must go through a registration process at both the Liberated Quilters membership, and its database, at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libquilters/ for processing, counting, and AAQI quilt numbering, as well as that of AAQI and their database registration requirements.
And all quilters who enter this challenge are asked to place a copy of the AAQI logo on their blogs and web pages, but they MUST link it back to www.AlzQuilts.org and NOT to any other site, not even to our challenge. The code is located at http://www.alzquilts.org/logolink.html.
All quilts and quilted postcards will be showcased on individual pages at the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative website, as well as on the Message Boards, our individual blogs, and links to you, here. It's a wonderful win-win networking and charitable quilt donation combination!
I will be contacting many of you directly to encourage participation and you are welcome to contact me, Michele, at quiltingjourney@gmail.com with any questions.
We are going to have so much fun!
Important Links:
Liberated Quilting Blog this blog
Liberated Quilters Message Board: Yahoo Message Board to join
Make A PRIORITY: ALZHEIMER'S QUILT Donation Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative
Look At Previous or Current AAQI Quilts get ideas, see how easy it can be
27 Ways You Can Help can't make a postcard for us? how about doing one of these?
From The Heart of a Quilter Why I contribute. *only raise the number of my immediate family members who had Alzheimer's and related dementias (whether passed away, or now facing its challenges) to 12. Twelve people who have been part of the 5.3 MILLION people facing this disease today!
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Three completed Liberated Mind Challenge quilts made by Irene, Michele, and Wendy, as part of the Liberated Quilters Message Board opening challenge. All three will be part of this Challenge and donated to AAQI.
