I am tossing around in my mind the idea of making a lap quilt that would be raffled off during our local Relay for Life.  I've not participated in fundraising for Relay for Life before so I'm not sure how to do this to get the best result.

I'm thinking of posting a sign at a local quilt/sewing shop asking for people to volunteer to make a block of their choice (to match a certain color scheme) and then collect the blocks to be sewn together to make the quilt. 

I've thought about doing just one to see how it goes over, doing three or four depending on the response of blocks received, etc.  Choosing a different color scheme to coordinate with different cancer awareness colors, etc.

Has anyone done something similar to this?  Is it a good idea?  Should tickets be sold while the quilting is going on or wait until a quilt is finished?  Should the finished quilt be on display during the Relay and still take ticket sales and have the drawing at the finish of the walk?  I'm just not sure?  I just have the thought, not clear on how to get it going.

In the past year my life has been touched with cancer in four ways, my husband's grandmother lost her battle with cancer, my best friends mother lost her's (melanoma), my aunt is a breast cancer survivor, and my niece was just diagnosed with Hodgkins in February.  I really feel that I need to step to the plate and do my part.

Any thoughts from anyone for the newbie?

Thanks! Brenda

We are doing a quilt project this year.  We charged $5 for submission of a quilt square.  Our local fabic shop handed out the entry forms.  They agreed to judge the squares and we are awarding a $50 gift card from their shop to the winning quilt square.  They will be judged on creativity and sewing skills.  We sent PSA to local tv stations and newspapers and was able to get spots on the tv's news and community programs.  We are going to take the squares and make a quilt and raffle it off.  The drawing will be held at the end of our relay event.  We received some unique squares and touching stories to go with the squares.  I will be glad to send you our poster and entry form if you want to see what we did.  Just send me a message with your email address and I will email them to you.  They are Word documents.