Foster Care Quilt Raffle

Update at the bottom.

I had an idea last week to do a quilt raffle to benefit Foster kids and you guys said you thought it was a great idea. Thank you for all your kind words!

After I posted about the raffle I remembered that my quilt guild made a quilt last year that we meant to raffle off but never did. I completely forgot about it! Isn't it amazingly beautiful? I knew you would love it!

The quilt is queen sized - 90" X 105"
It is machine pieced and hand quilted.
The fabric is 100% cotton quilt fabric and the batting is a thin cotton/poly blend. This is an heirloom quality quilt so please take special care of it if you win it. I will send washing instructions with the quilt when I ship it.

Tickets will be $1 a piece so when you make your donation just enter the dollar amount you would like to donate. If you want 10 tickets enter $10 in the donation box.

This box doesn't seem to be working properly but if you click on it you will go to paypal where you can enter your donation information.

I called a couple of the members, namely Amy and Janette, who did almost all of the work on this quilt single handedly and they agreed to let me raffle it here on one condition. I have to bind it, which I will do this week. I couldn't wait to post the photos though so while you guys are busily buying tickets I will be busily binding the quilt.

They also agreed that we could give the money to either the Foster Care Foundation or the Christmas Box House which is a home the kids go to while they're waiting for a placement with a family.

Here is how the raffle is going to work. I will video tape the drawing and post it in four weeks on September 10th. I will also notify the winner by e-mail which I will have through your Paypal payment. However. My goal is to raise $500. If we haven't raised at least that much then I will postpone the drawing until we do. But I don't think there will be a problem. If everyone who visits my blog in one day buys one ticket then we will have plenty of entries to raffle it off in September.

I am so excited about this! I will post updates on how much money we raise. If this is a cause that you feel strongly about then feel free to post about it on your blog and tell your friends and family about it. In fact does someone want to make a button for me? Or better yet, does someone have time to teach me how to make a button? I'm sure it's easy but I don't know where to start. Thanks!

Update - Thanks to Stranger my donation button is fixed! Aparently the only way to fix it is to add a new line of code to the button which Stranger found out after spending an hour on the phone with Paypal. It took that long for them to transfer him to someone who knew what they were talking about. So now if anyone else has a problem with the Paypal donation button charging shipping the new code is (input type="hidden" value="0.00" name="shipping").This overides your pre-set shipping calculations. I've refunded all the shipping charges of those who have already made donations. Thank you for your patience!