Virginia A. Spiegel

Beautiful Woman III by Susan Schrott
Original images by the artist, Susan Schrott, which have been photo-transferred to 100% cotton fabric. Fused to artist hand dyed fabrics and machine quilted. Embellished with heat set Swarovski crystals. 4″ x 4″

This is one of the three artworks donated by Susan Schrott for the Hearts For Anna fundraiser.  The other two are featured on Susan’s blog here.

Artful Home ’s Hearts For Anna is an online fundraiser to be held August 12 – 16.  All funds raised will go to Anna Millea an artist who is fighting breast cancer – again. Anna has been denied insurance, having been deemed uninsurable due to her “pre-existing condition.”

Deadline to donate artwork is this Friday, August 7.  All the details to donate your artwork are here.  The size is small, the cause is good!

More about my donated artwork here; all the donated artwork to date is here.

Morning Song

Morning Song will be available as part of Artful Home ‘s Hearts For Anna, an online fundraiser, August 12 – 16.  All funds raised will go to Anna Millea an artist who is fighting breast cancer – again. Anna has been denied insurance, having been deemed uninsurable due to her “pre-existing condition.”

Morning Song is a 7×5″ mixed-media collage.  Materials include hand-painted fabric, screenprinted upholstery fabric, painted and screenprinted paper.  It is actually an irregularly shaped art quilt and is sewn to black matboard for easy framing.

Kudos to CEO Lisa Bayne for creating this event to assist Anna.  If you missed the guidelines to participate as a donor artist, they are here.  You still have time to donate artwork before the August 7 deadline.

I would be happy to share other fiber artwork here before the big event, so do let me know if you are donating fiber artwork.

And mark your calendar for HEARTS FOR ANNA on August 12 – 16, 2009.  Artwork will be sold first-come, first-serve with all items selling for $100 on Day 1, $75 on Days 2-4 and $50 on Day 5. The first 20 donations have been posted in a nifty slideshow here where more information about the auction will also be posted soon.

My good cyber-friend Dawn Goldsmith has a very personal interest in the fight against ALS.  She has all the details about her local ALS Chapters’s newest fundraiser, a quilt raffle, on her great Subversive Stitchers blog.  

Go and visit Dawn’s blog or go right to the raffle quilt information and donate to this good cause.  I did! I made about 50 traditional quilts before I discovered art quilts, so I appreciate the work that goes into a queen size quilt.  

Trish Bowman of Jersey Girl Quilts pieced and quilted the queen size quilt.  It includes Hoffman batiks and colors were chosen to reflect hope and joy and a bright future. It is an Eleanor Burns pattern of double tulips.