Alzheimers Foundation
Denver, CO
2007
“Memories of Trees ”
FHQ volunteers donated over 100 hours in assembling, quilting and binding this beautiful quilt
from the Alzheimer's Association
in 2007. The theme this year
is 'trees'.
The center of each block is a tree, painted by an Alzheimer's patient,
and reproduced on fabric.
Other Alzheimer Assoc. volunteers add the 'crazy quilt' pieces
around the pictures and hand-embellished each one of the blocks with yarn, shells, lace, beads, embroidery, etc.
The sashing & outer border is velvet.
2008 Alzheimer's Quilt
“Memories of Birds ”
The birds in the center of each block were originally painted by Alzheimer's patients and printed on fabric.
Staff members created the 'crazy quilt' blocks using satins, velvets and other nice textured fabrics. (25 hours)
Each block was hand-embellished with embroidery, ribbon, buttons, beads, etc. (375 hours)
Firehouse Quilts volunteers spent 55 hours assembling the blocks with sashings and borders, using machine quilting where possible and hand-tacking each seam line in the nine blocks to stabilize it. This wall hanging will be displayed at our 3rd Annual Quilt Show after being sold at the Alzheimer's Silent Auction in June.
2009 Alzheimer's Quilt
“Memories of Flowers”
Flowers in the center of each block were painted by Alzheimer's patients again this year and
transferred onto fabric.
Staff at the Denver office of Alzheimer's Association and others affected by the Alzheimer's disease in some way, pieced the nine 'crazy quilt' blocks (22 hours) and beautifully embellished them (570 hours) before handing them off to the Firehouse Quilts volunteers.
Our Firehouse Quilts volunteers dedicated 65 hours into piecing and assembling the top of the quilt, machine quilting the borders and sashings, adding a hanging sleeve so it can be displayed as a wall hanging, finished the outer edges with contrasting binding
and hand-tacked all the seamlines within each block
to stabilize the entire piece.
Six of the eight volunteers from FHQ went to the Alzheimer's office to deliver the finished quilt and we got a nice picture.
“Memories of Mountains”
2010
“Memories of Mountains”
was made for the
Alzheimer’s Association
of Colorado in May 2010 under the direction of Jean Black.
The purpose of this beautiful, hand crafted, quilted wall hanging is raise funds for the association during their annual
Silent Auction in
Denver CO.
Pictures of Mountains in the center of each block were painted by:
Milly Doyle (Among The Hills), Merle Carmichael (Colorful Hills),
Dorothy Donaldson (The Space Between), Arthur Joseph Garcia (My Brother’s Picture), John Buschkamp (Sunset), Jan Young (Purple Mountain Majesty),Teresa Dillinger (Fire Mountain), Marcus Paden (Tortilla Mesa) and
Herman Casagrande (Landscape).
Nine Crazy Quilt blocks were created & the volunteer embroidered (540 hours:
Madge Banks, Arlene Hicks, Hedi O'Bayley, Karen Spelman, Gretchen Norman,
Jan Spaulding, Cheryl English, Jeanne Hill, Joanne Fisher and Carolyn Williamson
Volunteers from Firehouse Quilts completed the assembly and
quilting process in 116 hours:
Dusty Darrah squared up all the blocks, added sashing, borders and this quilt label. Susan Howarth, Joyce Johnson, Sara Van Horne, Bonnie Guy & Jacque Schneider hand-tacked inside all seams of each embellished block for stability. Barbara Dean and Sharon Lamberth made & attached the hanging sleeve & binding. It was Long Arm machine-quilted by Karen Niemi.
Brookside Inn Nursing Home
Castle Rock, CO
Brookside Inn residents watch
Jane Layng (back right) and
Barbara Dean (front right)
assemble their silent auction quilt.
FHQ volunteers Karen Schlegel, (center) Barbara Dean (left) and Jacque Schneider (right) help tie a silent auction quilt that we assembled for Brookside Inn Nursing Home in Castle Rock, CO.
Karen Schlegel, Jacque Schneider, Dusty Darrah &
Barbara Dean show the silent auction quilt they made for Brookside Inn.
Denver Health Medical Center
Denver, CO
Ellen Palmer & Dusty Darrah took four ‘special’ quilts that were made for requests like this. Even the employees that accepted the quilts said they all saw a quilt that ‘they’ would bid on too.
They were very impressed with them and very thankful that we brought them down for the auction.
L-R (bottom)Kelly Troester, Elizabeth Key
(top) Robin Engleberg & Ellen PalmerHighlands Ranch Community Association
This quilt was completed in time to donate to
the Special Needs Sweetheart Dance
at Highlands Ranch Community Association.
The young lady that won our grand prize Sweetheart Quilt was so thrilled, she was showing it to everyone
in the building on her way out the door.
Several of us also volunteered to help work at the dance itself and handed out some great stuffed animals.
We also provided a lot of cute stuffed animals for door prizes.
Primrose School
Littleton, CO
Susan Howarth, Sara Van Horne & Jacque Schneider work together, laying out the blocks for more volunteers to help assemble.
This quilt is very similar to the quilt we made for the
HRCA Special Needs dance.
We used red hearts instead of pink for this quilt.
9-Patches and heart blocks make a nice combination
for the silent auction quilt.