Lacelady

We took the quilt out and about to sell the 'tickets'. In actual fact, Cregg House printed A4 sheets of paper, with a full sized picture of the quilt on one side, and numbered lines for people to buy on the other. €2 for one line, or €5 for three lines. The local Supermarket store allowed us to pitch our quilt outside their door, which is undercover in a local small mall, (a blessing last year as it rained and rained and rained We did three full days initially, then at least one day a week for a couple of months. We took the quilt to a Gymkhana and Craft show (mercifully undercover again) to another agricultural show, Several days in the local hospital, as there are always a good number of people there, and basically anywhere else we could think of. A lovely lady bought lines early on, then came back for more sheets as she worked at one of the larger employers in the area. In the end, she raised almost €2000 from just that one place. Cregg House itself also sent out sheets of lines to all their contacts.