Used to do this in my home church; using the quilt to teach and an excuse for great socializing. Then some do-gooder decided to kick up a fuss and said that it was gambling and that ended our being able to give the church up $600.00 each year. Good luck with yours.

That is what a lot of folks tell me, that I give away too much of my work. But you know what? I'm a giver, as my kids tell me. I have not sold a quilt, they have all been gifted and I have made many since 2002. That is the year I retired. Not that I wouldn't sell them, but most folks won't pay enough for a hand made quilt. I love giving to people. Mary

I think like some others that a sampler is good, more appeal for lots of people and always interesting!:)

I have been donating quilts to my little country church for several years for raffles and auctions. I have always donated a queen size except this year I donated a baby quilt also and the baby quilt did very good. I think the sampler quilt is a very good idea and will make that for the next one. I have used different patterns, several log cabins. I always donate western theme quilts during the fundraiser our church puts on during Buffalo Trails in July - and they get good money for them. I donate the quilt completely finished - the church pays for nothing.

My friend just did the Ten Minute block. Using her embroidery machine she did different designs in the centre squares using a bright thread. The centre squares were black, the others were all different, she emb. them before she sewed them together. She ended with light(4 different light fabric) blocks), black centre, the next was a med. (4 different med. color fabrics) block with black centre It sure was impressive.

My friend just did the Ten Minute block. Using her embroidery machine she did different designs in the centre squares using a bright thread. The centre squares were black, the others were all different, she emb. them before she sewed them together. She ended with light(4 different light fabric) blocks), black centre, the next was a med. (4 different med. color fabrics) block with black centre It sure was impressive.

If you put a churn dash block (easy to piece) next to a snow ball block and piece it every other like that, you will get great secondary pattern and it goes fast with making HST 2 at a time and sewing the snowball corners on as squares and folding back. Sketch it out if you like. It looks great.

I have done a couple of raffle quilts -- the one that was fastest was a big block (24" sq) in the middle like a medalion. It was a star and I did 4-patches in the corners with a focus fabric in the middle. I then had all kinds of fun alternating plain and fancy borders. I did it in red white and blue and it brought in a lot of $$$. I made it 60x80 (since I was asked at the last minute and had less than a month to make it).

I like this idea -- this is a beautiful setting.

Two of the ones we did for a church raffle were log cabin and Jacob's ladder. We were able to use donated fabric for most of the quilts.

Hidden 9 patch, fast and easy and each block can have its own
sashing.

what is a churn dash block?

What about something like Jacob's Ladder, or something similar that they can relate back to their faith?

Thanks, that sounds pretty.

I've been told it violates the 5013C (or some number like that) tax regulations to do a raffle. I had planned to do the same thing for our church.

Warm Wishes is an easy and
attractive pattern with a secondary
pattern in it. It's a favorite of mine.

i would definityl do a traditional pattern and qween size. controld scrapy is nice maybe a sampler or as sujested a log cabin looks like alot off work but realy not.

What a wonderful thing to do. I made 7 or 8 quilts to be raffled off by my church at their fall Holiday Fair in Nov. of each year. Until recently, I made the quilt as part of my donation to the church. They had gone from members of the church making the quilt, to one couple buying them on trips to the Amish country. I didn't charge for the quilt until recently. My husband had been out of work for 2 years and we really needed the money and I had the perfect quilt. My son had been engaged to be married and his fiance called it off a week before the wedding. While Jen wanted a duvet coverlet instead of a quilt, I had gone to a lot of expense in getting fabric to make this quilt, using several batik fabrics, so I was given $400 for making the quilt. The quilt made over $2,000. Now I don't know if you would like to make this quilt as a raffle quilt, but it was (and I'm not kidding here folks) Lovers Knot. Or if you prefer Lovers Not. I've done Roman Stripes, Irish Chain, Ocean Waves, Jacob's Ladder, as well as Contrary Wife. My girlfriend has done several sampler quilts from her BOM quilts, and I forget what else we did. I'm sure anything you choose will do well if the quilt committee gets out and pushes for sales, as well as giving each member 25 tickets and asking them to sell or buy those tickets. That always worked for my quilt guild. I hope you can get a few ideas from my somewhat lengthy reply. Good luck.

I have done 2 raffle quilts, 1 for my Genealogy Society and it was raffled in Nov. so I did a Christmas Star quilt, it was a hugh success as the holiday season was coming up. The other one I did was Jacob's Ladder for my church, I did it in blue and white ( I read somewhere that this is a popular color for raffle quilts)---It also was a great success---I had loads of fun doing these quilts--

Enjoy and let us know what you decide on and post a pic,
:)

How about a Trip Around the World in fall colors??? Or spring colors if it's a spring raffle?

Sorry, I forgot to add that inside the snowball block you can use a big piece of focus fabric if you want. 12 inch goes so quick. Someone asked about what a churn dash block is...it is also called Hole in the Barn Door. I pounded out a top in one day for a raffle. I assume you know about making 2 HST at once by adding 7/8 in to the finished size, sewing 1/4 inch away on both sides from the diagonal of the block, cut apart and voila...2 HST from 2 sq, RST? Like I said, it goes fast.

Yes, I know how to do the 2 HST and the 4 HST. They are so easy to make. Thanks for all your ideas. Mary
P.S. There is a tute on how to do the 4 HST. Very simple.

But, I'd bet that people who don't quilt would jump at the chance to have a lap quilt. Or perhaps something a little bigger like a couch-size quilt. You are making a generous donation to the church; you will be blessed.

Making a quilt on point uses half the pieced blocks and half just squares. It goes togehter very fast. I make 9P blocks and set them on point with coordinated squares. They can be as many colors as you want from two colors all the way to scrappy happy! I love making them.
This is very charitable of you.
peace

I personally love the Baltimore Album quilts...I think something along that line would really raffle off well..

My girlfiend and I just finished a dresden plate in scrappy for our church bazaar in November. It really turned out very nice and I just need to bind it now.

I think the best size for your quilt would be a queen size. Most people now a days have queen size beds.

I make a raffle quilt for our church bazaar every year. I was making traditional quilts and found that the folks who liked them were the older generation who already had quilts. Now I make more geometric or arty quilts with batiks etc which seem to appeal to the younger (50+) ticket buyers. I was making sofa throws but find that people are more interested in queen size which can be used for a full or queen sized bed. I usually make the back interesting and tell folks that it is reversible. We usually make between $800 and $1100 on the quilt raffle. Shadow boxes was the quilt pattern three years ago. Good luck...I hope it makes a tidy sum for the church.

You could make a fan quilt. I made one for a raffle for our new Home Extension office. They are not that hard to make and you use a lot of colors. Also you could do a DP9 patch with different colors. Or a trip around the world. Made one of those for a raffle done it in rainbow colors.They way I made the trip around world was by the squares. layed them out and then sewed up the rows. Not like doing it with the strip way
Any pattern that you enjoy making is the way to go and yes do a queen size. Have fun doing it also

Choose a pattern that you will enjoy working on. Maybe one with a biblical name...Jacob's Ladder etc. You could do something simple like Warm Wishes or D9Patch. Have a look through your stash and see what you have to work with and an idea may come to you.

Warm Wishes are beautiful when done in the right colors and Log Cabins are always popular. This is a very generous donation on your part. God Bless!!

I think if you do the quilt in nutrals it will match anyones dacore so you would get more people buying tickets. Thus more mony for the church!

Hi, Mary -

Just sent you a PM regarding Yellow Brick Road, which uses 30 FQs for the queen size.

When making a lap quilt, I thought the light colors I chose were too jarring, so I used some of the shapes leftover from the cutting process to satin-stitch fill some places. This made a very different look which I fell in love with.

Queen size is probably the most often used. I've heard that blue and white or blue and yellow quilts always do well at raffles. The main thing to consider is how the tickets will be sold. In order to get a lot of $$ for the raffle, you need to sell the tickets in different places, and frequently. It helps if you have the quilt there to entice customers. Good luck!

Something with hearts. "For God so loved..."

D9P is an easy attractive design

I like the Disappearing 9 Patch. It looks complicated when done but is very easy to do.

Wonder-Mar, in another thread I made a comment about how a YBR was assembled. I was trying to do the placement from a very light colored quilt. I realize now that I didn't SEE all the blocks. Thanks for a better photo to be able to see the various blocks.