Many Gracious and Talented Beaders...

This above photo is just one bead quilt that will be auctioned off this year at the Bead and Button Show in Milwaukee. The squares of the quilt are contributed from the hearts of many talented and gracious beaders. It is part of the Bead-It-Forward project for the Breast Cancer Auction. Jeanette Shanigan coordinates the creation of the beaded quilts that will be auctioned off at the Bead and Button Show to benefit Bead Artists Against Breast Cancer. As of March 26, Jeanette has received 255 butterfly squares! She sews 30 squares together to form a bead quilt - seven quilts are now completed and she is working on the eighth. She fully expects to have ten or eleven bead quilts for the show auction. Jeanette is an amazing lady and beadwork artisan from Alaska. I have been honored to have taken a class from her at a past Bead and Button Show. You can always go to: www.beadandbuttonshow.com/bnbshow/ if you'd like to know more about the show. At this site, you can find all kinds of wonderful things about the show. You can even see a couple of videos concerning the show.
Gracious contributors for the above amazing quilt include Jean McElhaney, Sue Smith, Jeanette Shanigan, Barbara Todd, Deanna Ward, Karen Palmer, Jeannie Steedle, Kaye Lervick, Penny Round, Christin Travers, Kathy Wilke, Pat Sohns, Liz Thompson, Renate Hotchkiss, Crystal Fox, Molly Rice, Lyn Johnson, Rosalyn Warg, Pam Davies, Trevor Davies, Karen Durnian and Kate Hoohuli.