Guild Fundraising
10-16-2011, 07:25 AM
#2
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Lake Elsinore, CA
Posts: 15,143
We had a lot of fabric bits that had been donated to the guild over the years - far more than we could use for comfort quilts, and it was becoming a problem to store it all. We had a sale at the local senior center, marked everything at $1/yard, and made $700. We also sold used quilting books, patterns, etc.
10-16-2011, 07:41 AM
#3
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Southwest Kansas
Posts: 4,820
The guild I'm in now has started a home tour in conjunction with the Dorothy's House festival every year. I missed it last year because I wasn't here and the next one isn't until next year. I think they had 5 homes on the tour that were filled with loads of quilts and they charged $5 to take the tour.
Dorothy's House is from the Wizard of Oz. There's a house and a museum here.
Dorothy's House is from the Wizard of Oz. There's a house and a museum here.
10-16-2011, 07:57 AM
#4
Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 186
We have a dollar table at each meeting where we bring in fabric, books , magazines anything sewing or quilt related that we don't want anymore and others can buy them for a dolloar.
We also did a craft fair last spring, seeing it was a week after a tornado and wasn't well advertised and we made $300.00 I thought that was pretty good
We also did a craft fair last spring, seeing it was a week after a tornado and wasn't well advertised and we made $300.00 I thought that was pretty good
10-16-2011, 08:06 AM
#5
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 17,698
The Guild Show I was at yesterday raised $$ in these ways at the show
* admission fee
* lucky draw for two large quilts that they'd been selling tickets for at other times
* twonie draw (our $2 coin) -- you got six tickets and there were 35 wall hangings in the draw; you could drop your tickets into the corresponding #d bags that you wanted the prize ... or all into one bag etc.
* bazaar boutique -- members had brought in finished quilted, sewn, knitted etc. items; fabric bundles, FQs etc.; old magazines; and just about anything. The way the items were labelled it appeared each person put their price on it, and % to the Guild, and % to the owner/donor
* lunch room
* vendors market -- they would have paid a fee for their space
I think that was all the income generating possibilities yesterday.
* admission fee
* lucky draw for two large quilts that they'd been selling tickets for at other times
* twonie draw (our $2 coin) -- you got six tickets and there were 35 wall hangings in the draw; you could drop your tickets into the corresponding #d bags that you wanted the prize ... or all into one bag etc.
* bazaar boutique -- members had brought in finished quilted, sewn, knitted etc. items; fabric bundles, FQs etc.; old magazines; and just about anything. The way the items were labelled it appeared each person put their price on it, and % to the Guild, and % to the owner/donor
* lunch room
* vendors market -- they would have paid a fee for their space
I think that was all the income generating possibilities yesterday.
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