Col. Potter
Cairn Rescue Network
IRS registered 501(c)3 Charity
and

presents the
Love That Pound Puppy Quilt

OPENS: Monday, October 1, 2007 at 9:00 AM EDT
CLOSES: Saturday, April 19th, 2008 at 3:00 PM PDT
NOW CLOSED
Love that Pound Puppy Quilt designed by Linda Hibbert

"SAVING JUST ONE DOG
WON'T CHANGE THE WORLD,
BUT IT SURELY WILL CHANGE THE WORLD
FOR THAT ONE DOG".

Tibetan Spaniel

In June 2007, Silver Linings Originals decided to create a quilt to help a dog rescue group get funds to care for their rescue dogs. Col. Potter Cairn Rescue Network (CPCRN) entered and was honored to receive this quilt for our fundraising purposes. Love That Pound Puppy Quilt has been independently appraised and valued at $4,500.00 - this is a tremendous gift to us.

CPCRN dogs come from many places - some are direct owner or breeder surrenders to us, some come from Puppymill auctions, but many come from shelters all over the country.

Foxhound EnglishCPCRN Volunteers search Petfinder listings and contact their local shelters to try to find cairns and cairn mixes in need of assistance. We provide support to the shelters for the harder to adopt out cairns which may be in need of behavioral assistance or medical care (see Miracle's story HERE.) We do not refuse a cairn simply because they are old - in fact, the oldest cairn we have taken in so far was 17 years old. By accepting these dogs into our program we can save them from being euthanized while also opening up space at that shelter for other dogs to have a chance at life. Many of our volunteers have decades of experience with cairns and are used to their wily ways.
Greyhound The drawing will be during our Cairn Rescue Awesome Party (CRAP) held in Romoland, CA on Saturday, April 19, 2008. You need not be present to win. Squares are sold at this webpage, or in person at the CRAP only. While we will advertise this at all Col. Potter events, we will not be selling squares in person except at the CRAP. All profits will be used exclusively in assisting, rescuing and rehoming Cairns in need. Typical expenses include: veterinary care for pre-existing conditions, necessary shots, spaying or neutering, fees paid to shelters where Cairns are found and initial boarding for rescues when there is any question as to their health or temperament. CPCRN is a 100% volunteer organization - we have no paid employees.
German ShepherdNotes from Linda Hibbert - proprietor of Silver Linings Originals:

My "BEST IN SHOW, ALL BREED AKC" quilt was featured in Quilters Newsletter in 2007. This quilt, consisting of 7 full size quilt panels and spanning nearly 40 horizontal feet incorporates all of the AKC dog breeds, arranged in AKC groups. While the quilt is too large to be entered and judged in most quilt shows it will be on exhibit around the country occasionally. In April 2008 it will be a featured exhibit at the MQX show in New Hampshire. Their charity for the year is the New Hampshire Humane Society. I will have a charity quilt there to be auctioned off as well.

German Shepherd  While creating the BEST IN SHOW quilt, many dog blocks were made that could not be used in the final composition. Many of these 'reject blocks' (pound puppies) are now being incorporated into charity quilts for donations to rescue or research organizations across the country. The first of these "LOVE THAT POUND PUPPY" has been given to COL. POTTER CAIRN RESCUE NETWORK. Their extensive online network will publicize and feature this quilt until April of 2008 when it will go home with a lucky raffle winner…..

I anticipate that this is only the first of many charity quilts that will be donated to worthy organizations for the benefit of our four legged friends!

Golden RetrieverIn the meantime, I freely give permission to other quilters to use my patterns for similar circumstances. The patterns are my business, so they are not donated, but their use is encouraged. I only ask that my name, Linda Hibbert, be listed as pattern designer on the label of any products produced from my patterns.

The "LOVE THAT POUND PUPPY" quilt top was assembled using my dog blocks, scrappy set blocks provided by Noreen Duncan of Canada (a Cairn Terrier enthusiast) and the quilting skills of Sandy Hill. Other donated fabrics were incorporated into the borders. When the top was completed, I did the quilting on my Gammill Longarm.

 
Foxhound American

The quilt was appraised by a certified quilt appraiser, Jeannanne Wright of Longmont, Colorado. The following comments are a synopsis of her report. The full appraisal will be sent to the winner.

This is a large quilt, 70" by 87" and was made in 2007. It uses a variety of quilt construction methods, including paper pieced dogs, machine pieced squares, machine quilted and machine embroidered labeling of dog names. The fabrics are cotton solids and prints and the batting is also cotton. This quilt is heavily quilted with feathered bands, one inch parallel bands on the border, and ribbons, meander and crescent shapes in the blocks. There are three mitered borders. The backing is two different dog prints.

The construction and quilting are excellent. The quilt is new, unused and unwashed. Visually graphic and exciting, outstanding paper piecing technique, maker designed the dog patterns and is internationally known for her patterns.

Irish Setter

In order to generate the most revenue for our rescue, Linda has generously allowed us to use the image of the Love That Pound Puppy Quilt as well as the individual squares in our Cafe Press Store. We only have the full quilt up at this time, but as we add the additional squares, we will have links to their specific Cafe Press store by clicking the pictures on this page.

This will allow many of us to get T-shirts, Tote Bags, Tile Boxes and more with these images. To go directly to the Love That Pound Puppy Quilt page, please click here
Cairn

As usual, we will continue to have our incentive prizes for most referrals by dollar amount and by number of people referred. We will gift a lap sized quilt to the rescue organization that has the most dollars referred to us as noted on the pledge forms. We will gift a $50 gift certificate to Silver Linings Originals to the quilt guild that has the most dollars referred to us as noted on the pledge forms. In both the case of the Quilt Guilds or Rescue Organizations, if there is a tie in dollar amount, we will randomly choose a single organization of each type from those who tied.

For every $5 donation or like quantity thereof, a pledge square or squares will be assigned to the donor [i.e. a donation of $20.00 would entitle a donor to have their name placed in four squares] .

SPECIAL INCENTIVE: BUY SQUARES IN GROUPS OF FIVE! For each group of five raffle squares you buy at one time, you will automatically receive one bonus tote square.
EXTRA SPECIAL INCENTIVE: BUY SQUARES IN GROUPS OF TEN! For each group of ten raffle squares you buy at one time, you will automatically receive two bonus tote squares and one bonus shirt square.

The tote bag will have a pieced dog picture of your choice on one side of the bag. The shirt will be a high quality Denim shirt in the size of your choice - with a pieced dog picture appliqued to the back of the shirt. The winner will be able to pick their choice of dog from Linda's Canine Corner. You will need to pick a dog that has a 'Quilt Block' option. Because of the nature of the customization of these bonus prizes, it may take a month for their delivery. We do not have pictures of the tote at this time as the samples are still under construction.

Dandie Dinmont Terrier

When working dog rescue, you are constantly hunting for funds to help care for the dogs in your care, and to allow you to help more. This quilt came to us like a bolt from the blue, and we can never express our gratitude to Linda and all who helped her construct it. It is stunningly gorgeous and as the first recipient of one of her Pound Puppy Quilts, we can only hope we can do it justice. We have a 'goal' of having 2000 squares pledged but would be ecstatic if more came in.

For those not familiar with Col. Potter Cairn Rescue Network, our main website is http://www.cairnrescue.com/ - Please browse around. We can suggest checking out our Available Cairns for the dogs currently in care, or our Faces of Rescue Foster Dog Pictorial to see the many dogs we have cared for in recent years. If you are wondering where we got such a strange name, check WHO WE ARE and read about the little cairn in whose memory we work.
Once again, Thank YOU Linda and Silver Linings Originals for this opportunity.

 

Col. Potter Cairn Rescue Network is an IRS registered 501(c)3 Charity.
The small print about this fundraiser is at the bottom of the page
 
THE RULES


Col. Potter Cairn Rescue Network is an IRS registered 501(c)3 Charity.

These are the rules:

Shepherd mix - piecing pattern not available
  • Our Col. Potter Cairn Rescue Network's Love That Pound Puppy Quilt Fundraiser opens on Monday, October 1, 2007 at 9:00 AM EDT and closes on Saturday, April 19th, 2008 at 3:00 PM PDT. Online entries close earlier to allow for an on time raffle pull.
  • For every $5 donation or like quantity thereof [i.e. a donation of $20.00 would entitle a donor to have their name placed in four squares] a pledge square or squares will be assigned to the donor. Pledged squares are assigned sequentially as donations are received. Specific number(s) cannot be requested by the donor. Your pledge square numbers will be e-mailed to you upon processing your donation submission and entry into our Love That Pound Puppy Quilt database. All donations must be received within 30 days after the close of the fundraiser, otherwise your entry will be voided and if you won the quilt, it will be forfeited. CPCRN does not send statements.
  • The odds of selection will not be known until the raffle ends. We are not limiting the number of pledged squares.
  • All donations are tax deductible unless you receive a gift. If you receive a gift, the Fair Market Value (FMV) of that gift must be subtracted from the total donation amount. The FMV of this quilt is the appraisal value of $4,500.00. The FMV of any incentive item will be announced during the specific incentive. Pointer
  • $5 donation for a pledge square is a suggested donation. You may receive a pledge square without donating. Send a request to Quilts@CairnRescue.com and include all the information requested on the donation form.
  • This fundraiser is open to all individuals over 21 years of age, including CPCRN Board Members, Directors, Group leaders or managers alike with one exception. The person who will run the random selection program to pull the winning pledge square numbers will not be allowed to participate in this fundraiser, NOR will they have access or be privy to the database prior to the random number selection which will be time stamped by the program and dated.
  • Col. Potter Cairn Rescue Network has assigned a non-CPCRN Board member and trusted individual who has been given a "RANDOM SELECTION PROGRAM", which will provide a time stamped and dated list of the programs randomly selected number based on the amount of squares pledged [i.e. if we have 772 pledges, the Random Selection program will be programmed to select 1 recipient from 1 to 772. This individual will have NO knowledge of our donations database or who has been assigned what number(s) or pledge squares, and WILL NOT pledge in this fundraiser.
  • This fundraiser will close and a match with the Random Selection program will be made when the closing date and time, as mentioned above has been met.
  • Once the fundraiser closes, the following will occur: The random selection program, when run, will show the results to the person but also automatically email the results to the following addresses:
    • Danielle Rackstraw, CPCRN President
    • Quilts@CairnRescue.com
    • CairnRescueMall@cairnrescue.com
    • The individual who will run the Random Selection program
  • The results will be promptly posted on this page and sent to CRM.
  • Winner will be notified of their win on this page at the bottom within 24 hours of the close.
  • The quilt will be shipped within two weeks after you have been notified of your win and we have received your full donation.
  • Non - US Shipping: CPCRN reserves the right to charge any winner having their item sent to a foreign country the difference between postage within the USA and to the country which this item is being sent. Recipient is responsible for any customs or duty charges.
  • CPCRN generally has incentives on its Cairn Rescue Mentoring Yahoo Group. Only entries from those on the group on incentive day will be eligible to win the incentive - winner choice will be done using the same random number generator as on the final prize selection. All other rules apply to all incentive prizes.

Col. Potter Cairn Rescue Network is an IRS registered 501(c)3 Charity.

 

A close-up of the inner border feathered quilting

Quilted Inner Border

1440 Total Squares pledged for a total dollar amount of $7,098. (Dollar amount does not match square count exactly because we did have some free squares, and some people donated in odd amounts.

THE WINNERS ARE...

  • Winner of the Pound Puppy Quilt - John Eck and Aynne Henry, AZ - it will have a place of honor in their home
  • Winner of Denim Shirt - Stacey Wagers, MO
  • Winner of Tote - Kathie Rudy, NY
  • Winner of Tote - Deb Williams, NM
We added an additional bonus tote due to the terrific turnout.
Incentive winners
Most referrals by number
of people referred
Karin Maeys AND Amy Robinson - three each
$50 gift certificate to the Cairn Mall
Most referrals by Dollar Karin Maeys
$50 gift certificate to the Cairn Mall
Most referrals by Rescue Group Blue Ridge Greyhound Adoption
Lap sized quilt for use in their own fundraising
Most referrals by Quilt Guild To be announced
$50 Gift Certificate to Silver Linings Originals for use in their own fundraising

Border Terrier

If you have any questions regarding A Love That Pound Puppy Quilt, please email Quilts@cairnrescue.com

To print out a Flyer suitable for posting: Click Here . Please remember to take the flyer down once the fundraiser is over.

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