Time to Have Some Quilting Fun, Fun, Fun!

Here are some fun quilting insights that I wanted to share with you today:


Marcia's Crafty Sewing & Quilting is hosting a Fabric Garage Sale that starts today!   You can link up to sale and/or pop by all the Fabric Garage Sales to do some fun shopping.


Martingale's Warehouse sale where 35 + popular titles are on sale for $6 each ends today at midnight.  Still time to pop on over and check out their sale!  

Kay Mackenzie is celebrating the release of her new book "Scrap-Applique' Playground, with a Book-A-Round/blog hop?

Here is the schedule for this event:

• Thursday, June 7 • Stitch This! the Martingale blog, by Jenny Wilding Cardon
• Friday, June 8 • Kim Jamieson-Hirst’s Chatterbox Quilts Chitchat
• Saturday, June 9 • Sarah Vanderburgh’s Sew Joy Creations
• Sunday, June 10 • Maria Hrabovsky’s Maria’s Quilting Scraps
• Monday, June 11 • Carrie P.’s A Passion for Appliqué
• Tuesday, June 12 • Susan Brubaker Knapp’s Blue Moon River
• Wednesday, June 13 • Erin Russek’s One Piece at a Time
• Thursday, June 14 • Holly Mabutas’s Sprinkles of Thought
• Friday, June 15 • SewCalGal
• Saturday, June 16 • Me, Kay Mackenzie, at All About Appliqué

Cheryl Lynch is celebrating the release of her new book Sew embellished! with a blog hop.
 

• June 4th Stitch This
• June 11th - Debbie's Fiberwork
• June 18th - Yarn Goddess
• June 25th - Art With A Needle
• July 5th - SewCalGal
• July 9th - Connections by Karen
• July 16th - Fiber Art & Quilting by Cheryl Sleboda
  

AAQI/Alzheimers Art Quilt Initiative Updates from Ami Sims
1. Watch the AAQI episode of The Quilt Show for FREE. The Quilt Show is now running episode #712 featuring the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative for FREE. This was taped back in August of 2010, so some of the numbers are a little out of date, but everything else is the same.

Updates:
The AAQI has raised more that $722,000 for research since we started back in January 2006 The AAQI has received more than 10,000 donated quilts so far.
Here's the link: http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/shows.php/episode/712

2. Vote for the AAQI at http://www.attorneyandoni.com/Giving_Back.html
The blog post will go out at 1am eastern time on June 6th. 
Daniel J. Andoni, a local attorney here in Michigan, pledges 3% of his net profits to a local charity each month. Instead of deciding which deserving nonprofit gets his donation, he uses crowd sourcing: visitors to his website cast their vote for one of five charities. The one with the most votes at the end of the month wins the donation.

The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative is one of the charities listed for the month of June! We are off to a fabulous start, but it's the charity with the most votes at the END of the month that counts. To pull this off, we need to keep growing the numbers. Every vote counts.
Vote here: http://www.attorneyandoni.com/Giving_Back.html

3. The June online auction ends June 10th. You've still got plenty of time. The June online small quilt auction is in full swing. We have 27 quilts up for bid and we hope everyone will bid. All profits fund Alzheimer's research. Please bid here before the auctino ends on June 10th: http://www.benefitbidding.com/listings/categories/index.cfm?category=965774286

4. AAQI Founder and Executive Director Interviewed in local paper. Ami Simms was interviewed in the Flint Journal for her work with the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative. Read it online here: http://www.mlive.com/living/flint/index.ssf/2012/05/piece_by_piece_flint_woman_qui.html




Lilypad Quilting is hosting the 2012 Pets on Quilts Show August lst-10th.

And, don't forget to click the tab labeled "Giveaways & Contests" for insights on a variety of ways you can win prizes.


Lastly, what are you doing this week to have fun ?