Hmmmm....I suspected that might be the case, that we had been misinformed.

Dina

I like Love Quilt since we make them with love to give to someone who needs some love and care.

My "ugly" quilts go to the animal shelters. If I use scraps it's large scraps. Too easy to rip the other ones open. I was about to throw a old nightgown away and thought I'll just sew it together and basically made a whole quilt. It's a 2x so it was good size. You could call it a 15 minute quilt because that's about how long it took to stitch it up. Birthed it with DH's old under shirts for batting.

Not sure you have been misinformed. Someone in our guild looked up the laws and now it is called a donation quilt. Although our bi annual quilt show is held in a church and might be something because of that. It has been 2 years since we voted on it so not sure if a law or church related but worth checking into.

Love it. 'Charity quilt' sounds so Victorian, as in'we're making charity quilts for the foundling home' 😔. I will use comfort quilts forever more.

I like community quilt for the giveaways within a community, that just doesn't have any negative connotations for me no matter how I slice it. And opportunity quilt for the raffle quilts sounds nice although ours is still called raffle quilt.

The problem with a 'raffle' quilt may be a legal thing. I know that is the case here in california. A raffle infers gambling and as such comes under a whole set of rules. If your group is a non profit organization, there are very strict rules about gambling. One of the ways to get around it is to 'donate' the prizes and 'suggest' a cost of donations (tickets). I know it seems very complex for a simple thing, but it only takes one person to call in a complaint and your organization can be in a lot of trouble. We have experienced this with scouts, with PTAs and even a band organization that was fundraising for uniforms!!!