THE PROJECT
In 2021, I initiated a collaborative, long-distance quilt project centered around my favorite Kona cotton fabric color, Pickle. You can read more about the Pickle Quilts here. Through our collaborative quilts, we raised over $10K for Second Harvest, a food bank in SE Louisiana providing front line food support to communities in and around New Orleans devastated by Hurricane Ida.
This immediately became an annual tradition! In 2022, I chose a multicolored palette of Kona cottons with food names for our quilt. Quilters had the opportunity to sign up for one of twelve colors and together we made 36 blocks total. Participants used their assigned color as a central focus of a 12" block of their choosing. Each block included small snowballed corners in the featured colors, which allowed the quilt to come together with four-color diamonds between the blocks. We raised funds for food banks local to each of the 36 quilters and raised over $7K!
THE 2023 QUILT
Our quilt will be a large throw size, 72” square. Each block will be created with high quality quilter’s cotton. Quilters contributing to this project will be asked to choose a feature color from the palette below and then select a complement color to accent their block with, also from the official 2023 palette, ie. flame/wasabi, pesto/peach.
THE FUNDRAISER
We are raising funds for the Maui Food Bank, which is supporting victims of the Maui Fires. The Maui Food Bank is Maui County’s primary safety net for hunger relief. The Food Bank provides safe and nutritious food to anyone in Maui County who is at risk of going hungry. Of those served, 40% are children and youth. Working with more than 100 distribution partners and programs, the Food Bank distributes safe and nutritious food to individuals, families, kids, the working poor, seniors on fixed incomes, the homeless and anyone who is at risk of going hungry. This includes people in need living in the rural communities of Hana, Molokai and Lanai.
On December 1st, the fundraiser will and raffle tickets were "purchased" by way of a direct donation to the Maui Food Bank.
THE RAFFLE
More soon!
THE SPONSORS
A million thanks to Lilo from Trace Creek Quilting for generously offering to longarm our quilt!
The CONTRIBUTORS
TBD!