Door Prizes
We have several door prizes, provided by our vendors. Every attendee receives one ticket for door prize drawings. You must be present to win, and you may only win one door prize.
Gift Exchange
If you would like to participate in the Gift Exchange, please bring a wrapped gift with a value of at least $25. You do not need to sign up in advance to participate. Each person who brings a gift will leave with one.
Historically, there was a gag gift that has been passed around at Orlando Distaff Day for years – a brightly colored crocheted bikini. Whoever received the bikini brought it the next year, wrapped with their $25 gift. Starting with 2025, we turned this into the ‘Booby Prize.’ The recipient of the Booby Prize receives a bag with yarn and instructions on how to make Knitted Knockers (there is also a crochet pattern available). Over the year, the recipient knits or crochets knockers for donation and brings back a new bag of appropriate yarn for the Gift Exchange the following year.
Demos
Demos are 15 to 30 minutes long, on a wide variety of fiber techniques and disciplines.
We are looking for demonstrators for 2026. If you’d like to do a demonstration, please fill out the contact form and let us know!
Warmies and Food Donations
Tee Rogers of The Warmies Project is returning to Orlando Distaff Day! Bring any warm items and nonperishable food that you’d like to donate. Tee will bring your donations to the Coalition for the Homeless. Orlando Distaff Day has partnered with The Warmies Project since 2014 and over the years, attendees have donated thousands of handmade items to help warm up those who need it. We look forward to seeing what you’ve made for donations over the last three years.
Raffle Baskets
- Four drawings will be held. Two drawings are for yarn. Two drawings are for spinning fiber.
- Tickets are $1 each or $5 for six tickets.
- You will receive your raffle tickets when you check in to the event onsite. If you fail to check in, your raffle entries are forfeit and your purchase is treated as a donation to Orlando Distaff Day, Inc. There are no refunds for raffle tickets.
- You will be able to choose which of the raffle basket drawings you enter. Each basket will have a separate bag or box in which to place tickets for that drawing. Tickets must be separated and if you will not be present for the drawing, you must write your name and phone number on the back of each ticket. You can only put the tickets into the bags onsite, and this is the only what to enter your tickets into the drawing. You cannot designate which drawing to enter at the time of purchase. Orlando Distaff Day volunteers are not able to put your entries in for you.
- Raffle tickets will be available for sale on site, up until the time of the drawing.
- No purchase or contribution is necessary. Attendees can complete a form for one free raffle ticket. This offer is limited to one entry per attendee, and must be done on site.
- The drawings will be held at approximately 4:30 pm on Saturday, January 10, 2026.
- You do not need to be present at the time of the drawing in order to win. Orlando Distaff Day will arrange with you to pick up the raffle basket or will ship it to you. Raffle prizes will only be shipped within the Continental United States.
- This drawing is conducted by Orlando Distaff Day, Inc. whose principal place of business is 111 Holderness Drive, Longwood, FL, 32779.
- Orlando Distaff Day, Inc. did not purchase any of the raffle items. The contents were received as in-kind donations from several donors.
Photos below are from prior Orlando Distaff Day events, and are not the baskets which will be available at the 2026 Event.
Silent Auction
Orlando Distaff Day Inc will be holding a Silent Auction again in 2026. The items in the Silent Auction have all been donated to Orlando Distaff Day, by various donors, since our last in-person event. The proceeds from the Auction will help cover the costs of running the event.
Pictures below are of items from previous Silent Auctions. We do not yet have pictures or a full list of the items available in 2026.
Show and Tell
We love to be inspired by the things you have made! Bring them with you, give us some details and do your best model walk. The pictures below are all Attendees striking poses in approximately 2013.
