Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Raffle Quilts

Country School Quilters's raffle quilt to
benefit the Virginia Quilt Museum.
See next year's here

Here's a work-avoidance scheme. Do a web search for images by typing in these three words: Raffle Quilt 2011
I found quite a few. Here are some based on antique quilts.

Boise Basin's quilt is autographed by many famous quiltmakers. Click here to read more:


The Charlottesville Area guild's quilt titled Trailing Vines was designed by Martha Calderwood and Ann Robertson, adapted from a quilt by Susan McCord.
http://quilts.avenue.org/rafquilt.html


Maple Grove guild's quilt is called Land of  10,000 Fabrics
 http://maplegrovequilters.org/
 
The Newtown Quilters guild's quilt is another classic star.


Northwest Quilters Summer Garden was designed by June Bradley and Carol Schaefer, inspired by Rose Kretsinger's Paradise Garden



Quilters Guild of Plano's Tequila Sunrise with a Gaggle was inspired by Judy Neimeyer's Glacier Pines pattern.








The Tri-cities guild's is based on Sue Garman's pattern Stars for a New Day.
You could try the words Opportunity Quilt too. And then there's 2012. It could keep you entertained for quite a while.

Brownstone Quilters' Friendship Garden was inspired by Florence Peto's Calico Garden.
http://www.brownstonequilters.com/Quilt_show.html

7 comments:

WoolenSails said...

Beautiful quilts, love being inspired by antique quilts and redoing them into something new. I hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Debbie

regan said...

Wow! These quilts are all fantastic! I hope they raised tons of money for their guilds.....so much goes into these quilts....I hope the winners know they have a masterpiece!

Thank you so much for all you do! This blog is such an inspiration for me! I follow the links you give, and they are so informative and inspiring. This is a tremendous amount of work, and I'm so grateful that you share your knowledge with us. I've learned so much from you! Thank you!

Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Barb said...

what fun to see these raffle quilts!
I'm so happy to report that Friendship Garden was won by a Brownstone guild member - hooray!

Fran said...

Those are all very inspiring!!

Becky in VA said...

Raffle/opportunity quilts have been a way for women to raise money for worthy causes for so many years - glad it hasn't changed. The winner of the Vintage Stars (all civil war repro fabrics) was won by a lady who really appreciates it and the best part is that ALL proceeds go to the Virginia Quilt Museum in Harrisonburg, VA. Thanks for including our quilt.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!

woolywoman said...

I love machine quilting my scrap quilts in a pattern that looks like trailing vines. Very relaxing. Now I have to make an applique version!

fabriquefantastique said...

who would have guessed? I would not say no to any one of those quilts.