Sparrow Quilt......FOR SALE

Here is your opportunity to own one of my portrait quilts:

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Sparrow

This quiltlet has been donated to

Alzheimer's Priority Quilts

You can purchase it NOW !

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Science and Art.......Together

Science and Art.....come Together

For everyone who sews for the AAQI, I know you do so because you care deeply about finding a cure for Alzheimer's. Let me assure you that what you do matters. Every single stitch counts. Your art touches people in a most special way. Just look at the faces of the people below holding the quilts you made!

University of Michigan

Research Team

with Ami Simms

It is unusual for researchers and those who fund them to ever meet. AAQI volunteers have had this opportunity three times. It is an extremely rewarding experience.

CLICK HERE: Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative

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CLICK HERE: From Heartbreak to Hope Video

CLICK HERE: Sparrow - Inktense Portrait on Fabric

CLICK HERE: Purple Name Quilt on The Quilt Show

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

From Heartbreak.....to Hope

10,000 Names

Quilt Exhibit

From Heartbreak....to Hope

In this one minute video you can view the exhibit:

Last year I was quilting on Sacred Ground as I worked on one of the 7 foot purple panels in the video above.

In the video there is a woman in a bright green shirt holding one of these purple quilts.......it is Sacred Ground.

It is my honor and privilege to be a part of From Heart Break to Hope.

CLICK HERE to see the incredible quilts that have already been donated.

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Please consider creating a tiny 9 x 12 inch quilt and donating it to such a great cause.

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Sparrow......Alzheimer's Priority Quilt

This is the little Inktense Portrait

I finished yesterday...

I thought I would finish it today and donate it to

Alzheimer's Priority Quilt Auction

The Mary's River Quilt Guild

is planning an exhibit of

Alzheimer's Priority Quilts this summer.

The back side is just as pretty as the front...

After machine quilting... it is time to bind it:

I am couching a braided cord for the

Edge Treatment.

This quilt would be overwhelmed with a regular binding.

Detail of Braided Cord Binding Treatment

Sparrow

8.5 x 11 inches

Alzheimer's Priority Quilts

should be no larger than 9 x 12 inches

Back Side of Sparrow:

A metal picture hanger sewn to the back will make

it easy to display this little birdie.

Consider creating a little quiltlet to donate to:

Alzheimer's Priority Quilts

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CLICK HERE to view how this quilt was created w/ Inktense Pencils

CLICK HERE to view my Corded Binding Tutorial

CLICK HERE to view my Adventures in Mixed Media Quilt Class in May

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

“Alzheimer’s Illustrated: From Heartbreak to Hope”

Do you remember when I quilted this back in March?

Purple Name Quilt

7 Feet Long

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Here are a few more of the Purple Name Quilts:

On display at The Quilt Show

August 10, 2011

This represents 1/3 of the total exhibit

It totals 10,000 Names

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CLICK HERE to check out the World Series Quilt Challenge

Shave Your Legs.....and Raise Money for a Worthy Cause

Quilting.....on Sacred Ground

Hello Grandma.....Remember Me?

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Hello Gramma.......Remember Me?

As a teenager I spent time visiting my grandmother at a care facility.

I would walk down a long corridor, reach the door of her room, knock gently then walk in...

I would walk over to her bed, touch her hand and greet her:

Hello Gramma.......remember me?

For 12 years my family watched my gramma's slow decline from Alzheimer's.

My Grandparents, Helen & Nicholas Fusco

This is the way I prefer to remember my grandmother

I was recently contacted by:

Jeffree Itrich
Sr. Clinical Trials Communications Specialist
Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study
University of California, San Diego

Here is Jeffree with one of the quilts donated to comfort an Alzheimer's patient

Quilts brighten the lives of Alzheimer's Patients

Quilters have long known that a quilt is a loving tribute that bonds quilters with recipients across generations and across vast distances. The warmth of a quilt is enhanced by the often bright patterns and colorful images which frequently suggest a simpler time.

Under a unique donation program organized by the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS, quilts are brightening the lives of Alzheimer's patients around the nation.

The Alzheimer’s Study Quilt Program began in late January 2010. An employee who quilts jumpstarted the project because she knows how positively people react when given a quilt and how quilters are wonderfully generous people. Her plea for quilts to give participants in the NGF (Nerve Growth Factor) Study was picked up by numerous quilting newsletters. Good Samaritans circulated the request for quilts and they began arriving from communities all over the U.S. The program has received nearly enough quilts for all the NGF Study participants and are now looking for quilts for two other Alzheimer’s studies in progress.

Those study participants who have received quilts have been immensely grateful and realize that the quilts were made with love, sincerity, and gratitude (for participating in the study and helping future generations). Many of the quilters had family members with Alzheimer’s (AD). One woman who lost her mother to AD made and donated 12 quilts and another whose grandfather had AD provided 11 quilts. A woman in Pennsylvania made five flannel quilts in one week!

If you would like to donate a new lap-sized quilt to the Alzheimer’s Quilt Study Project, please contact Jeffree Itrich atjitrich@ucsd.edu.

Jeffree
Jeffree Itrich
Sr. Clinical Trials Communications Specialist
Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0949
San Diego, CA 92093-0949
Tel: 858-622-5827
FAX: 858-452-4291jitrich@ucsd.edu

www.adcs.org

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Alzheimer's Illustrated........Purple Name Quilt

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The quilting is complete and this is in the mail on it's way back home.

I chose a fine gauge thread for machine quilting:

Superior Thread So Fine!

I did not want the stitching to obscure the names

Machine Quilted Vine

Reverse Side of 7 foot name panel

On this Sacred Ground I chose to quilt a vine...

We all grow on the vine of life.

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CLICK HERE to view the previous post on this quilt

Please CLICK HERE to find out more about Ami Simms and her quilts to raise funds and awareness for Alzheimer's.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Quilting.......on Sacred Ground

The Mail Man delivered a Package today...

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From Heartbreak to Hope

Purple Quilt Project

This package contained purple strips of fabric with names signed on them.

The purple strips were sewn together and measure 7 feet long

I do not know the people whose names are on these strips, but I feel a genuine closeness to them.

They have all been touched by Alzheimer's

Charlotte H. of Waldwick New Jersey

I was born in New Jersey

Thelma V. OBrien Bergenfield, New Jersey

I was raised in New Jersey and most of my family lives there today.

Louis Petix Bronxville, New York

I lived just minutes from New York

Myron S. New York City

School Field Trips took me to the Statue of Liberty, riding the ferry in the New York Harbor, and to the museums of New York.

Ted Lannigan of Seaside, Oregon

Margurite Miller of Phoenix, Oregon

I have called Oregon home for the last 26 years.

These names are important to me.

I feel as if I am on sacred ground.

I have been invited to quilt this 7 foot purple quilt.

It will be part of 118 purple quilts in a new exhibit:

Alzheimer's Illustrated

From Heartbreak to Hope

As I quilt on this sacred ground, I will choose my stitches thoughtfully and treat this quilt with gentle hands, as I know there is another quilter out there who is also quilting one of these purple quilts which contains the name of my grandmother, Helen Fusco of New Providence, New Jersey.

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CLICK HERE to see Glitter for Grandma one of the Quilts I created in honor of my grandmother.

Please CLICK HERE to find out more about Ami Simms and her quilts to raise funds and awareness for Alzheimer's.

If you are a Quilter CLICK HERE to see incredible journal quilts!

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn