2022 Kona
food Quilt

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 is now an annual tradition! For 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.

THE FUNDRAISER

We raised funds for community food pantries, food banks, and food justice orgs nationwide. In most cases, these local fridges/pantries/cabinets are maintained and stocked by the communities in which they are located. They provide people experiencing food insecurity easy, accessible, and free access to a variety of foods and personal care items. On December 1st, the fundraiser opened and raffle tickets were "purchased" by way of a direct donation to those local pantries.

Our fundraiser is CLOSED. Come back for final numbers on 12/5!

THE RAFFLE

The quilters who created blocks for this collaborative quilt selected local-to-them food banks/pantries and food justice organizations. In order to enter our quilt raffle, donors selected an org from the list below. If donors weren’t supporting a specific quilter, they selected the organization closest to them geographically!

Each raffle ticket was issued in $5 increments. Due to the unique nature of this fundraising effort, there may not have been a direct monetary donation method. In some instances, people donated by way of making a purchase of material goods through Amazon, sending a donation via Venmo, etc. In all cases, a single raffle ticket was issued for every $5 donated, cash or product.

Please continue to support the organizations list below!

I’ve chosen to support FIG, which recently partnered with Black Trans Liberation Kitchen, supporting their efforts to deliver weekly family meals and fresh vegetables to trans communities in the heart of NYC.

FIG is a NYC-based grassroots collective of people working to transform the food system from within and BTL is a mutual aid organization that empowers and celebrates trans and gender nonconforming people. Together they make magic!

SUPPORT FIG | SUPPORT BTL

The CONTRIBUTORS

THE SPONSORS

Long arm quilting for our collaborative quilt was provided by Michelle Ramsay from Quilts Made with Love. Fabric for our giveaway and for each of the quilters involved in the project was provided by Robert Kaufman/Kona Cotton. Backing fabric for our quilt was provided by Ruby Star Society.

THE QUILT

Our quilt is a large throw size, 72” square. Each block was created with high quality quilter’s cotton. It’s lined with Quilter’s Dream cotton batting, backed with cotton fabric, with scrappy binding on all sides. It can be machine washed on the gentle cycle and line-dried/tumble dried on low.