What's in a name?
#23
Power Poster
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Corpus Christi, Tx.
Posts: 16,105
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.
#24
Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: deep east Texas
Posts: 146
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.
#26
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Tri-Cities, Washington
Posts: 757
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.
#27
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 1,857
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!!!
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