During the Houston show in 2008, Diane Petersmarck ran a stay at home challenge [SAHC]. Lois Jarvis provided a piece of her Rust-Tex fabric for each of us. Then, if we used the fabric in one of the quilts, Diane's sister Beth, sent us a piece of her hand dyed silk velvet.
Basically, we all made our little quilts for Ami's Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative. I made 5. I used the Rust-Tex fabric for one; the other four used photos of my face broken up in different ways. The Rust-Tex quilt and 2 photo quilts were put up for sale during the Houston show of 2009. I thought maybe the other 2 were not good enough, since they were not put up for sale. The 2 kept out featured my whole face; I thought maybe that was not acceptable. At the time I was really disappointed.
The Changing Face of Alzheimer's 2
Recently, that disappointment turned to elation. I was told those 2 were kept out because Ami was planning a traveling show for 2011. Approximately 100 quilts were kept out as possibilities. 53 quilts were picked out of that batch to be part of the show. One of mine is going to be in this exhibit, "Alzheimer's Illustrated: From Heartbreak to Hope". I am thrilled and honored to be part of this traveling show which starts in January of 2011. It is a totally unexpected surprise.
If you would like to shop Lois' Rust-Tex store, click here
If you would like some of Beth's wonderful fabric, click here.http://quiltersstitchtogether.com/index.html
For a short time, all of the chosen quilts may be seen here
http://www.alzquilts.org/exhibit.html
PS. I really wish I had used someone elses' face. I'm already tired of looking at 'me'.
