Here are two closeups of the beautiful FMQ in this quilt.
Diane Gaudynski designed and made "Mourning Too Soon" a 30" x 32" and this beautiful quilt raised $1,810 for AAQI.
Susan Brubaker Knapp designed and made "First Green" a 23" x 41" and this lovely quilt raised $190 for AAQI.
Sue Nickels designed and made "Red Wings" a 16" x 16" and this lovely quilt raised $710 for AAQI.
Sue Nickels designed and made "A Bouquet For You" a 33" x 33" and this lovely quilt raised $1,011 for AAQI.
Sue Nickels designed and made "Golden Feathers" a 18" x 18" and this lovely quilt raised $1,200 for AAQI.
Books published by Diane Gaudynski:
Books published by Sue Nickels
Books and DVDs published by Susan Brubaker Knapp
Here Are The Rules - from SewCalGal
- Your Challenge piece needs to meet the rules set by AAQI for Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts (e.g. no larger than 9"x 12"). Read the rules here: http://www.alzquilts.org.paq.html
- Pay special attention to the part about written permission for designs other than your own: http://www.alzquilts.org/permission.html
- All Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts must be registered before they are donated. This is not an automated system and registration can take 7 to 10 days. Plan ahead. Read the registration form before you start so you know what is required: http://www.alzquilts.org/register.html Register your quilts here no later than
July lst, 2013August lst, 2013. You will receive shipping instructions with your confirmed registration. - Create your FMQ piece, using insights from any one or more of the 2012 FMQ Challenge tutorials, or books/dvds published by Diane Gaudynski, Sue Nickels and/or Susan Brubaker Knapp.
- AAQI does require quilters to obtain permission from Designers to use their designs, when submitting pieces to AAQI. SewCalGal has obtained approval for participants in this Challenge to use designs in the books/dvds by Diane Gaudynski, Sue Nickels, and Susan Brubaker Knapp for purposes of making a quilt for AAQI. For use of general quilting designs, this is not an issue, but if you copy a specific design, such as the Flowers in Sue's "A Bouquet For You" or the bowl and feather motif in Diane's "Joy Remembered" you need to include a Designer release form when you send your quilt to AAQI. Please let SewCalGal know if you are doing this and I can provide you copies of such release forms, granted for this particular challenge that benefits AAQI only.
- Once your quilt is finished, complete the registration form with AAQI http://www.alzquilts.org/register.html (no later than July lst, 2013) and follow the shipping instructions.
- Your Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts Registration number will be used when you enter this challenge. Bloggers will need to incorporate that number in their blog post entry and non-bloggers will need to include it in the description when they upload their photo entry to the flickr group.
- Only registered Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts are eligible to enter this challenge.
Please post your entry on your blog, which shares insights you are participating in this challenge and donating your finished piece to AAQI, including your registration # . To clarify, you can include as many photos of this tutorial exercise in your post, but you can only add one link to the linky tool below. You may inspire others to want to join this challenge too!
1) You will need to have a Flickr account (www.flickr.com).TO CLARIFY, IF you make more than one AAQI quilt, for this challenge, please add links for each entry that you get a registration # from AAQI. The more FMQ quilts you make for AAQI, the more entries you get in this challenge!
2) Upload your photos for this month's challenge to Flickr, batch organize, send your photos to groups, select "2012 FMQ Challenge". While Flickr, limits the amount of text you can share in your description, feel free to share your perspective on this exercise and/or your past FMQ experience, if you wish.
3) After your photos have successfully been loaded to the "2012 FMQ Challenge" group, click on your best photo in that group, ideally one that shows the stencil and how you quilted using that stencil. Copy the URL link to your particular photo entry. Add that link to the linky tool above, to officially enter this show.
SewCalGal's Challenge Entry Form:
By entering your quilt in this challenge you acknowledge you are donating your quilt to help raise funds for AAQI, and using your FMQ skills to pay it forward. After all, many FMQ Experts have made beautiful quilts that helped to raise funds for AAQI and we all enjoyed the tutorials from FMQ Experts provided in the 2013 Challenge.
Please remember this challenge is more about learning and improving your FMQ skills, so don't rush thru the exercise just to enter. Take time to think thru your Challenge piece, before you stitch it out and enter it. There is plenty of time to plan your design, practice as well as to stitch out your final piece that you'll donate to AAQI to help raise funds.
Oh wow!!! This is such a great thing...I hope I can manage this one.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful quilts for a wonderful cause. Our guild has a challenge for AAQI too. Quilters are amazing people!
ReplyDeleteKelly
Gorgeous....
ReplyDeleteFinally got my link in here. My quilts are not whole cloth with feathers, like most of these, but I did use skills from the 2012 Challenge, as listed in my post. I have a third quilt ready to register, but hope to have a fourth soon and will register them together.
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