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The colorful quilts that last month brightened the whitewashed walls of Tucson Medical Center have found permanent homes — and raised about $120,000 for women's cancer research and outreach.

"All 545 quilts were sold," said Jeannie Beahan, director of Quilt for a Cause, the group that auctioned off the donated quilts about two weeks ago.

The highest-priced quilt, one of 43 at a live auction that were not displayed at the hospital, sold for $3,300, she said. Quilts also were sold at a silent auction.

A total of 957 quilters from 22 states participated in the fundraiser, said Beahan, a breast-cancer survivor.

"The quilters, so many of them have been touched by cancer," she said. "That's why we got so many quilts. And it's not just like handing over $50. A lot of time and effort goes into making these quilts."

The fundraiser surpassed expectations, noted Jean Owara, a Quilt for a Cause board member. "Our goal was to make $100,000," she said.

Owara, who is a quilter, said she bought an artsy quilt featuring the Mona Lisa for $600.

"It was very different, something that I would not do myself," said Owara, describing her quilts as traditional. "When I saw it, I fell in love with it; I just had to have it."

Another quilt that Owara donated didn't even make it to the auction. It sold for $3,750 off the group's Web site before the event, she said.

Owara and several other women made the appliqué quilt over two years, and she won it in a raffle last year. "It meant a lot to me, to win this quilt," she said. "I donated it in memory of my friend, Anita Hudson, who died of cancer. She was a very special person."

Proceeds from this year's auction will be split between the Arizona Cancer Center for breast and gynecologic cancer research, and the TMC Foundation, which offers women's cancer outreach as well as health services to uninsured and underinsured patients.