Welcome to the weekly linkup where we celebrate the art of hand stitching! Make a cup of your favourite beverage to enjoy while you visit the blogs of slow stitchers around the world. It's the perfect way to start your Sunday! Today I want to share with you a bit about the Mennonite Relief Sale that I attended yesterday. This is an annual auction of over 200 quilts.
It was a lovely day with great weather, yummy food, and a good turnout of generous people ready and willing to donate to this worthy cause. These are some of the tents where you can purchase food, plants, crafts, and I'm not really sure what all because I was over at the quilt auction.
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| hand quilting with Judy |
Yesterday I saw that finished quilt auctioned and it sold for $275.
This quilt is called Whirligig and was made by a small group of my sewing friends. It's the 6th quilt we have made specifically for this auction and we were delighted that it was sold for $700!
It was very inspiring to see so many gorgeous hand quilted treasures being appreciated and sold to new homes.
So now it's your turn! What are you hand stitching this week?
All those awesome quilts :) what a fantastic auction.
ReplyDeleteHow great your quilt sold well. That is very exciting and gratifying. Have a great day!
ReplyDeleteI went to the quilt auction as a teenager with my family studies teacher. We had a great day. We had a couple of ladies from the organizing committee speak at our guild a couple of years ago. I should try to get a group of friends to help me make a quilt for the auction. Glad you had a fun day!
ReplyDeleteso glad the auction went to well, always nice to get a good price on a quilt.
ReplyDeleteWow, there were a whole lot of quilts there. I had never heard of this before. I will have to look into going to an auction like that some day.
ReplyDeleteThe quilt made by your group is beautiful - worth every cent of the $700 that was bid for it. Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteWhoohoo! Happy to hear your quilt did so great! You must be so proud. ;^)
ReplyDeleteHi Kathy,
ReplyDeleteCongrats on selling your quilt. I love quilt shows and auctions. So much inspiration. Have a great day!
Fun day seeing so many colorful quilts. Your quilt and time spent making, benefitted others.
ReplyDeleteFantastic auction and beuatiful quilts.
ReplyDeleteThe whirligig quilt is beautiful, it deserved to make that much money! Great job.
ReplyDeleteThose quilts look fabulous.
ReplyDeleteThat auction must be amazing to see. There would have been a large amount raised after this and hopefully all the quilts were sold. Great effort...
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful to hear that group quilt sold for a good price ( though I imagine that it was priceless :)
ReplyDeleteWow, congrats on helping raise so much at the auction. Do you know what the highest bid was for a quilt? Just curious.
ReplyDeleteLooks like you had a lot of fun! Congratulations on such a high bid for your quilt! That is wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing and hosting the party!
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