Take a picture of the finished product if you can!! How wonderful of all of you to do something like this.
We had a blast doing it. Next year we will likely be beating volunteers to knit off with a stick! I already signed up for the same time slot for next year. Maybe the wind will be less aggressive!!
After the event all the food donations were counted to determine which charity will get the proceeds from raffle tickets which we will continue to sell until Thanksgiving weekend when the winner will be picked during our Festival Of Lights. So far they are selling well so hopefully we will raise a nice chunk for the winning charity. Votes were in the form of non-perishable food stuffs put in the labeled box of your choice, after the count all the food was taken to one of our local food banks, I won't swear to the figure but 'votes' collected during the 24 hour period weighed in at something like 270 pounds, not bad for an event planned only two weeks in advance and given minimal advertising.
Some really nice things happened during the event, people not only voted and bought raffle tickets but also gave us hot soup, bags of candy bars and cookies, cups of coffee. There was a big cruise ship in our harbor, many tourist bought raffle tickets with the request that we write "from your friends in Germany" (or where ever) on the tickets, basically these were donations because none of the people from out of town want us to ship the blanket should they win it.
Really I can't wait to do this again next year but also look forward to all the things in-between. Nov is Coats for Kids month so we will be knitting hats, mittens and scarves to donate. The shop will replace for free the initial ball of yarn purchased for this when you bring in a balls worth of finished pieces, pretty cool. I had no idea what a great group I was stumbling into when I first started going to knitting group after learning the store had opened but I am loving being a small part of a privately owned shop with such a generous community spirit.
Thanks again for your replies and good wishes.
Oh I will take pictures of the blanket but don't know how to load them here...unless it is just like loading pics I used in my profile. No clue how some of you get all those whacky pics on here...