Great news!
Friday, July 29, 2011 at 8:11AM I spoke with someone at the city attorney’s office yesterday and got the go ahead to do the quilt raffle! No forms needed since it’s for a charitable cause. Yes! Paperwork is not my forte!
I also spoke with the Mission this morning and we’re working on ironing out the details. I think the plan is to hang the quilt at the Mission while it’s being raffled, so I guess I will need to sew on a hanging sleeve.
Next thought… should I label it? Something like “quilt for hope”, yada yada yada… suggestions would be MOST welcome! I was thinking of naming it “Shades of Hope”, since it’s in various shades of green and purple, but I wasn’t sure what information should be on a raffle quilt. I know many of you have been involved in these, so your feedback is much appreciated.
I’m pretty excited about this, and hoping the raffle does well, as I would definitely like to do it again, especially if I can get some of the local quilting groups involved… and if not, I’d still like to do it again.
Jim will be back from England in the wee hours of Sunday, I can’t wait! It feels like he’s been gone forever!
Reader Comments (8)
Yes, you must add a label and I really like the name "Shades of Hope"! Great job, YOU!!
We have found that the following makes our quilt raffle sales go up
1. bring the quilt to quilt guild meetings. Quilters generally like to support each other.
2. go to craft fairs and set up a booth. They may be able to waive the fee if you show them it's for charity. Or, if you are selling table runners, etc, at a craft fair, have the quilt there for ticket selling purposes.
3. see if you can get someone to sponsor the printing of the tickets. Our local quilt shop does that and the second half of the ticket is filled out and put in a drawing for GC from their store. They get info for their mailing lists and it drives traffic to their store.
4. can you bring it to churches and sell tickets after the service is done? You have to get it out and exposed to people who don't visit the mission.
I agree with Susan that in some way it needs to be known about because a lot of people who would buy the tickets would not be at the mission. A newspaper article and your blog would be good. If you do a blog post specifically about this cause and then have all of us that read your blog and have blogs post a link to it you will have more see it. I know I would be willing to do a post about it and I'm sure others would too.
Karen
Love the quilt name! Good luck with your mission.
Love the name! That is perfect. I like to include what kind of batting was used and how to care/wash/dry it. Are we out here in the rest of the world going to be able to help and buy chances at winning a beautiful "CJ creation"?
Great to hear that it won't be very complicated to raffle the quilt. Here in CT it is very complicated. I like the name of the quilt. The label should have your name, the date, the organization & I agree laundry hints would be good. Good luck. Diane in CT
CJ, there's an article about raffle quilts in my newest McCall's magazine. It has some good suggestions in it. One of the suggestions was to include cleaning instructions.
Good luck with the raffle. Hope we get to buy tickets,too. Great cause. I love the way you get right down to solutions when you see a problem. It's an inspiration.
I am so glad that it will be easy for you go ahead with the raffle. I hope that it will bring lots of donations.
Beckie