Throwback Thursday; Stolen Raffle Quilt

In 1995, our guild's raffle quilt was stolen from the display window of our local newspaper office. According to the lottery corporation, we had to either make a new quilt or come up with a rather large sum of money for the prize. We scrambled to make a new quilt from blocks that we won at a quilting conference. It was like a relay race- one person would do some work on the quilt, then pass it to the next person to complete the next step. We kept doing this until the quilt was completed. The original raffle quilt had taken us four years to make, it was hand quilted and many of the blocks were hand pieced. The colours were pretty, including blue, purple, teal and white fabrics. I made a scrapbook detailing the whole story, but that's gone now too. I think it might be stored at a guild member's house, then forgotten about. It'll turn up one of these days.