World AIDS Day - one quilt

December 1 is World AIDS Day. Forty million people worldwide are living with HIV. Check out the USAToday article and slide show featuring the AIDS Memorial Quilt - remember when it was on display in DC ten years ago? The AIDS Memorial Quilt is now 54 tons heavy - honoring more than 40,000.

The Atlanta Constitution has an article about the quilt with this photo of 46-year-old cosmetologist Kimberly Jackson's panel made for her friend and client, Dr. Wandra Jones-Phillips, who passed away in 2001.

Quilt Pink Day - Sept 30

Saturday, September 30, Better Homes and Gardens American Patchwork & Quilting is hosting Quilt Pink Day to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer awareness and research. To participate, find a local quilt shop from the Quilt Pink Store Directory, call a friend and make plans to visit on Quilt Pink Day; and make a pink-and-white quilt block. Each block will be stitched together to make a quilt that will be sent to American Patchwork & Quilting magazine headquarters for an online auction in Spring 2007.

Be sure to leave your comments about the day! Happy Stitching!