As you send in your registration, your gift will be logged so that a check can be kept on the number of quilts promised. Nearer to the target date you will be asked to send your quilt(s) to an address, where they will be numbered, sorted for exhibition and stored. The quilts will also be photographed in preparation for the proposed book.

Each quilt will be given a number and each country attending the Games also given a number, these will then be drawn out of a hat so that no personal selection is undertaken. Allocation will be completely random.

After the draw has been made we will contact each quilter maker to let you know where your quilt has gone.

Think of the excitement of knowing that your quilt may be hanging on a wall in China, France, Australia, USA, Paraguay, Fiji, or any one of the many countries taking part!

We hope that the quilts will be given out to a representative of each country as they arrive at the Olympic Village for both the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games which will be at different times. As soon as we have confirmation of the process of distribution we will up-date this paragraph.

When the time comes to send your quilt to us we recommend that quilts should be rolled around a tube.  We recommend a cardboard tube, such as the inner used for carpets about 4" in diameter.  The tube must be greater in length than the quilt is in width. Cardboard tubes must first be wrapped in aluminium foil to create a barrier against acid migration and then wrapped, preferably, in acid free tissue. Tissue can be purchased from Lakeland Plastics Ltd. Cumbria www.lakeland.co.uk or good stationers and Art shops.

Before rolling, the quilt should be laid face down on top of a sheet and covered completely with tissue.  It should then be rolled carefully, but loosely, onto the tube and interleaved with tissue with the top side facing out.

The rolled quilt should then be covered with fabric or sheeting and tied , not pinned.  Wrap in brown paper, address to and from clearly marked and send to:

A Gift of Quilts, 6 Barrow Hill, Goodworth Clatford, Andover, Hants SP11 7RG

We can also arrange for you to hand over your completed quilt at one of the quilt shows. Please get in touch if you wish to make such an arrangement.