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Here's an update for the AAQI Stanley Cup Quilt-Off - As of 10/8/2011 - According to their website - Alex is in the lead!

So far the standings are as follows:
We try to update once a day, but this is NOT an automated system. Please be patient.

• The Feed Dogs
  • Alex Anderson: $155
  • Hollis Chatelain: $19
  • John Flynn: $30
  • Renae Haddadin: $87
  • Becky Goldsmith:$77
  • Sue Nickels: $25
  
  
  
• The Rotary Blades
  • Caryl Bryer Fallert: $35
  • Pat Holly: $35
  • Libby Lehman: $115
  • Judy Mathieson: $45
  • Mary Sorensen: $20
  • Ricky Tims: $106

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Okay, you heard Alex talk about it with Hollis, and now the time has come.  The Stanley Cup Quilt-Off to benefit the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative is coming!

For the past three years, an elite group of quilters have been raising money for the AAQI each November to commemorate National Alzheimer's Awareness Month. The group has grown from four (2009 World Quilt Federation Smackdown) to eight (2011 World Series Quilt Challenge), and now to twelve (2011 Stanley Cup Quilt-Off).

The sports parodies are suggested each year by John Flynn, as a way to encourage "trash talking" between the competitors. This year's salute to hockey includes photographs of each quilter with hockey helmet and missing teeth PhotoShopped onto bodies of famous hockey players. (Apologies to the NHL.)

The twelve quilts will be on display from November 2-6 at International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas.

It all begins by Rooting for your favorite player.

Everyone can root for his or her favorite quilt(s) online with a $1.00 donation to the AAQI. "Roots" (donations) have nothing to do with the outcome of the auction, but are a way to influence the money earned by each quilter, and, of course, support the AAQI's mission of raising awareness and funding research. Donations (roots) can be made at http://www.alzquilts.org/root.html.

To learn more, to root for your favorite player, and to take a closer look at these stunning masterpieces of quilting, click here.

For the first ten days of November the "Feed Dogs" and the "Rotary Blades" will go head-to-head in an online quilt auction benefiting the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative. To the winners go the spoils: bragging rights for the team and the individual who raise the most money for the AAQI.

Playing for the "Dogs" are Alex Anderson, Hollis Chatelain, Becky Goldsmith, John Flynn, Renae Haddadin, and Sue Nickels.

On the roster for the "Blades" are Caryl Bryer Fallert, Pat Holly, Libby Lehman, Judy Mathieson, Mary Sorensen, and Ricky Tims.

The Quilt-Off Schedule is as follows.

• September 1-November 10: Root for your favorite player— $1 per "root"
• September 1st to October 15th: Purchase commemorative "Quilt-Off" Earrings.
• November 1-10 online quilt auction.

The final horn sounds at 10pm CST on November 10th when the online quilt auction ends, but the puck drops NOW!