Raffle Tickets for the Cats & Sunflowers Ukraine quilt will be available for 2 extra days. They were initially going to be available for a week, but the site was unavailable for the better part of a day for merging. And for two days the post about the Quilt Raffle wasn’t in the sidebar and neither was the Ukraine thermometer.
So the Quilt Raffle has been extended for 2 extra days to make up for that.
Raffle tickets will be available until midnight on Tuesday. (blog time)
Details are in the post below, but it’s pretty simple. Raffle tickets are $50 each. Donate through the Ukraine thermometer and send me an email message with the ActBlue receipt. And just like that, your donations turns into raffle tickets.
‘Cats & Sunflowers’ Ukraine Quilt from Quiltingfool: Raffle Tickets Available for a Week
Open thread!
zhena gogolia
This is exciting! Thanks for doing this, WaterGirl and QuiltingFool!
Quiltingfool
Don’t forget, we will be offering individual quilted blocks for donation! Watergirl and I were discussing sizes of the blocks and in our discussion she said she would like a round, not square, block and if that was doable. Yes, I can make them in the shape of a circle, too. If you are planning on donating for a block, just let us know your preference on shape.
I use fabrics I have on hand, so the block you get may or may not have the exact same fabric as in the quilt. I am very picky about the colors and prints I use, and if I think it looks like crap, I won’t unload it on you. For example, I put a big block in the quilt (a pair of cats – the back of the cat is an arch made of triangles) and didn’t like how it looked. So I ripped it out and made a new block.
So, I do have that block, ready to quilt. It looks fine all by itself, if you like bright yellow and blue!
One other thing – I will put a border around the block, but it probably won’t be the same as in the quilt. When I make a “scattered” quilt – no orderly rows – I make filler blocks or sashing to make the quilt the width and length I want. This involves big sheets of graph paper and lots of arithmetic! Individual blocks will have a pieced border and I get to be creative and try out new things. Win-win!
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@Quiltingfool: And the individual blocks will go “up for sale” after the raffle is completed, right?
WaterGirl
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛: Yes, we’re thinking the individual blocks will go up for sale AFTER the raffle is complete and the raffle winner is announced.
That way even people who bought raffle tickets will know where they stand and can make their decisions about the blocks.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@WaterGirl: Sounds good, thank you!!
sab
Ate my earlier pledge comment. Oh well.
sab
Ghost comments are a problem today, Post it now. Gone in five minutes. Happened all day today. Five times with me.
WaterGirl
@sab: Nothing in pending, nothing in trash, nothing in spam.
Comments always have to go somewhere. I don’t see how they can just go poof. I mean, they can appear that way to you, but they have to be somewhere in WordPress.
🤷♀️
WaterGirl
@WaterGirl: Emojis are showing up small now. :-(
Andrya
@Quiltingfool: If I don’t win the quilt (and as a statistician I know the odds are against me- and they should be) I want to order a mini-quilt to be a piece of wall art. Roughly 3.5 to 4 feet long, 2.5 to 3 feet wide, though I’m very flexible on size. I realize this means a number of blocks, and I expect to pay serious money for that.
As for what panels, OF COURSE I must have Patron, and also the three cats panel, and at least one sunflower. Other than that it’s up to you.
Is that something you would consider?
Thanks for your incredible efforts!
PS I thought I’d mention, my incredible sister-in-law, helped by me, prepared a huge number of plants for a plant sale in San Francisco to benefit aid to Ukraine. I thought you would like to know that you are not the only one doing this.
sab
@WaterGirl: $300 for quilt squares. Asked when and how to give. Went thwerp. ( i.e. gone without a trace.)
Another Scott
5 raffle tickets here. E-mail to WG on its way.
Thanks to Quiltingfool, WG, and everyone who is supporting Ukraine in every way they can.
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@sab: Very strange. :-(
You can make the donation now (or before Tuesday midnight) and just forward the ActBlue confirmation email to me at my watergirl email address.
That will be 6 raffle tickets! thank you
Ha Nguyen
Got 10 tickets and forwarded you the e-mail.
WaterGirl
@Ha Nguyen: Thank you!
Quiltingfool
@Andrya: Not sure you’ll see this – I posted and left! So sorry!
I’d love to design a mini-quilt for you! You can contact me through my Etsy store (just click on my nym) and we can discuss what you’d like!
ceece
I would love the center sunflower square as a separate piece.