Dina

Our guild is making Quilts of Valor. It is the first time we have done this as a group. We are trying to figure out what kind of an "event" to have to give them to the veterans, as we really want to honor them. The quilts will be displayed as a group as part of our Quilt Show, and we will give the quilts to the veterans at a later date.

At first we were going to give them out during one of our guild meetings. The plan was to also have a pot luck supper before we gave out the quilts and to skip the business meeting.

Now we have found out that our meeting place really isn't big enough to do this, as we have about 50 members who come to the meetings, and we will probably have 30 quilts to present. If each veteran brings one person, that is 110 people, and the small cafeteria we meet in at a local private school won't hold that many. The school doesn't have a larger room to rent us.

So now that we need to change locations, some members are also thinking a pot luck won't work and we should cater the meal. This is going to get expensive, and some of us are concerned about the cost of renting a room and catering a meal. Some of us think that cake and punch would be enough.

My question is how have presentations of Quilts of Valor been done in your guilds? I have researched online, but I can't find out much about actual presentations. I have really only found pictures of quilts being handed out to the vets or folded over chairs in anticipation of that.

Thanks for any information.

Dina