charities
Quilt Charities Accumulate
Even before the AIDS Memorial Quilt brought notice to the charitable qualities contained within a few patches of fabric and some thread that holds those patches together, quilts have brought comfort to those in need. Recently, news about how quiltmakers and their products have comforted everyone from the elderly to soldiers to the sickly have […]
Fiberart Postcards needed for International Quilt Festival
I love to keep up with what Virginia Spiegel is doing on her site, Fiberart For A Cause - FFAC, as she is one active lady. Recent news from her site: the 2006 Invitational Reverse Auction sold out, and over $3400 was raised for the American Cancer Society. The next project is the Internation Quilt […]
Invitational Reverse Auction
What is a reverse auction? In the case of The Fiber Art for a Cause Invitational Reverse Auction 2006, all artwork featured on that site will have a starting price beginning 16 May. This price is reduced 8% each day until the item sells. Wait too long and your favorite artwork will be gone!
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Fiber Art for a Cause
The Winter 2005 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors (pp 76-78) contained an article about “Fiber Art for a Cause,” by Patricia Bolton. Bolton focused on Virginia Spiegel and the money that Spiegel raised for the American Cancer Society through fiber art postcard auctions and sales. To date, Spiegel has raised $33,000 from the sale of […]
