Fabric Rosette Wreath: for a good cause!

I am on the Board of A Room to Heal, we're a Binghamton area organization that creates healing environments in the rooms of children with severe medical issues.  It's an amazing organization and we recently had our Holiday Luncheon.  An added fundraiser at the luncheon is a silent auction.  Area artists (including myself) created "Wreaths of Art" to be used as centerpieces and to be auctioned off.  My wreath was titled "Fabric Garden" and consisted of over 100 handmade fabric rosettes.  Now, if you've even created a flower rosette, you know it's not something that only takes a minute or two.  From start to finish (cutting fabric, making bias tape, forming the flowers, etc) it takes a good 10 minutes PER flower.  It took me about 16 HOURS!!  to make this wreath.  But it was worth it because it turned out amazing and it raised $70 for the organization.  The woman who purchased it came up to me at one point and told me how much she loved my wreath, she said she was willing to pay whatever she had to in order to win it!  It's nice knowing that something I put so much time and work into now has a loving home.