Libby Lehman quilts offered in auction
 

She is putting up for auction 50 of her quilts. Some are from her earlier years and some a few years before her stroke.


http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/once-in-lifetime-auction-of-quilts-by-rock-star-fabric-artist-innovator-and-author-of-threadplay-300426739.html

I can just imagine how much they'd go for. Years ago I went to a class she had, she had one quilt, about a throw size, it had falling leaves on it, (I think) and it was worth around 10,000 at the time. She's awesome and so is her work.

Some have a starting bid of $2,500. At least one has a starting bid of $25,000.
The article has a link to the auction site.

I was blessed to have taken a couple classes from Libby back in the day. She's a wonderful person and an awesome teacher. I hope they do well with the quilts at the auction.

I took a class from her and it was fun. Her quilts are nice but not tens of thousands of dollars nice to me. LOL I don't think the quilts are being sold to pay for medical bills. She couldn't afford the rehab facility her family wanted her to be in so they asked for donations to pay for it. Quilters donated enough to pay for her treatment.

That was 4 years ago Onebyone and I don't know that quilters donated enough to pay for all her rehab and associated bills. She only had Medicare. No supplemental. So it must have cost a fortune and I'm sure the rehab has been ongoing and would be very expensive.

Her family kept an update on the fund and Libby online at the funding site Caring Bridge. The funds were raised.

I had the opportunity to take 2 classes from her not only did I learn a lot but she was such a wonderful person that she made those designs seem easy I have her book Threadplay and it is a fun technigue. Thank you for the info as I did not know this.

I hope she gets the minimum bid for each quilt and can appreciate the respect and love she has from all of us quilters.

But for what? Continuing care is very expensive and she probably has to have medical and maybe continuing rehab care and its been 9 years. They could be needing more funds and reluctant to tap the quilting world again for it.

I just looked for some updates on her. I did find that she was back in the hospital for an extended stay in 2013 and who knows how many others. Poor thing. I hope she does well and that they get lots of money for the quilts so that they can give her the best care and not have to strap themselves to do it.

Her brain aneurysm and stroke was in 2013, not 9 years ago.

But I agree that I suspect she will continue to need extra care and that can get expensive very quickly.

That is an amazing quilt on the link. I pray she will get the funds necessary for her continuing care.