Quilt show advice

[chickenscratch]

The FFA at our high school is trying to find fund raising ideas, and I thought a quilt show might work.

For those of you who have been involved in guild shows, charity shows, etc. I have a few questions.

1. How do you go about finding entrants?

2. How much do you typically charge entrants per quilt?

3. Is there a minimum number of categories to offer?

4. Is there always prize money, or are ribbon prizes sufficient?

5. Is there any special liability insurance needed to cover damage to quilts?

6. In reference to 5, have you ever had somebody file such a claim?

7. What do you do about return shipping costs? (It seems to me I had to add extra to pay for return shipping from Innovations last year, not sure though)

8. Who judges? and do you pay them to judge?

Sorry for all the questions. We're talking about doing this in March and I want to get started planning it now so there are no surprises.

[ffq-lar]

Yikes! Time is short already! Sorry--maybe a better fund raiser would be an auction! Our guild does a show one year and an auction the next. It really does take us two years to plan for the show!

Teresa, I will email you with some info about the auction if you like. Send me a U2U or email me.

[quiltmonkey]

Teresa, if you do a fund raiser, raffle or auction, check on the legal requirements (e.g. obtaining permit number or other documents, etc). so you are legit and you don't get in trouble with Mr. Tax Man.