Over the weekend I attended a great quilt show put on by the Illini Country Stitchers in Champaign IL. The show was wonderful and really showcased the impeccable piecing and quilting of very talented ladies. I arrived late on Friday, so went back on Saturday to take pictures, visit the vendors and buy some raffle tickets. I jokingly told the lady, "I really don't need to put my name and number on the tickets as I never win, but want to support the hard work and thought that was put into making them." Low and behold, when we got back from an Octoberfest that evening I had a message on the answering machine that I had not only won one basket, I had won TWO: the baby basket and the basket with TWELVE 18" x 22" wall hangings for each month of the year. WOW!
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We have a brand new grand daughter born September 28th, so this will be sent to Penelope (Penny) on Tuesday
It includes the following:
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And the second basket of 12 wall hangings, plus the wooden quilt hanger!
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Here is one of the wall hangings. Such meticulous work for a donation too: great applique and quilting
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By the way, I only bought 6 tickets ($5) for the raffle quilt and 6 tickets ($5) for the raffle baskets, putting only one ticket in ea. of the six choices. My DH said I should have bought a lottery ticket that same day, ha, ha. So grateful to the wonderful talented ladies who put them together. Thank you!