This is the little quilt that I'm donating to the Alzheimers Art Quilt Initiative. Fortunately it is a little squarer than it looks here, the quilting almost creates an optical illusion-odd. It is called Hope in a Whirlwind, the hope is the little wonky house (whose home isn't a little wonky) and the sun and of course, the quilting gives it the whirlwind effect. I dedicated it to the caregivers of those with alzheimer's. My quilt is made up of scraps, I think I showed the little houses the other day, and I appliqued the sun into the corner. It is registered, #5862 ( in case you want to bid on it at
http://www.alzquilts.org/) and will be for sale after they sell their 1000 quilts that they are taking to the Houston Quilt Show this week. Houston is one of the biggest quilt shows in the world and I understand that these little quilts just fly off the hangers, so many people attend the show, intending to purchase a donated quilt. I hope to be able to see this phenomena some day.
These little quilts are about 8x11", made from scraps left over from the piano key border on my Liberated Quilt Challenge. I then layered them with batting and backing and hand quilted them using perle cotton. The top one is done in triangles and the bottom one is done with clamshell shapes. The photos are a bit funky since the light is yellow in the library at night, but they are bright and cheerful and hopefully someone at the Houston Quilt Show will find them fun and purchase them. The top one is dedicated to the memory of Grandma S and those that loved her and the bottom one is for Terri's Grandma and those that love her. I'm happy to be doing anything that might help us find a cure for this dreadful disease. 
