Our AAUW quilt group makes a quilt each year to raffle with proceeds going to our scholarship fund. The group meets once to agree on a pattern usually presented by an avid quilter. A group finds the best place to purchase fabric with a good discount. Next all of the quilters meet to press and cut fabric. Each quilter takes fabric to make units or blocks. The last one was a flying geese quilt where we each made the flying geese rectangular units. The seasoned quilters sew the units or blocks together. Then, since the quilt is usually large and we hope to make a good amount on the raffle we take the quilt to a longarmer. One pattern was 1" finished squares with black border around each unit of 8 x 8 1" squares. We used up a lot of fabric that the group had accumulated over the years. One year we picked a Christmas pattern.