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!
ALASKA
Kenai Peninsula Food Bank
ARIZONA
St. Mary's Food Bank
CALIFORNIA
Alameda County Community Food Bank
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley
We All We Got San Diego
People's Pantry SB
Santa Clarita Valley Food Pantry
IOWA
Sweet Tooth Community Fridge
North Des Moines Mutual Aid
ILLINOIS
Nourishing Hope
Market Box Chicago
Leyden Township Food Pantry
Peoria Grown
Greater Chicago Food Depository
INDIANA
Hoosier Hills Food Pantry
MARYLAND
B'more Community Fridge
MONTANA
Missoula Food Bank
NORTH CAROLINA
Hunger and Health Coalition
PORCH Chapel Hill
NEW YORK
People's Pantry
PENNSYLVANIA
Mama-Tee Community Fridge Project
Lancaster Food Hub
Greater Pittsburgh Comm. Food Bank
RHODE ISLAND
Project Hand Up
The Milagros Project
TEXAS
Houston Food Bank
VIRGINIA
Alive (Alexandria)
WASHINGTON
Long Haul Mutual Aid
WISCONSIN
Badger Prairie Needs Network
Second Harvest Madison
WEST VIRGINIA
Mountaineer Mobile Food Bank
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!
The CONTRIBUTORS
TEAM PEAPOD
@reswank
@amymees
@southbaybella
TEAM BASIL
@edible_chrome
@fire4hairlady
@mandacranda401
TEAM BLUEBERRY
Kait Nelsen
@halfsquarehannah
@manojo.de.nervios
TEAM WATER
@quilting_kristin_sea
@quwillt
@shelbelled
TEAM PIMENTO
@dreamingstardust
@madeonsugarbushlane
@shawty_hobbies
TEAM TANGERINE
@getzmadeco
@emilybruzzini
@quiltingjetgirl
TEAM CHEDDAR
@megansewsforfun
@quilt.engineer
@koalamommily
TEAM PAPAYA
@jayaquilts
@martyswank
@cherylannernst
TEAM GUMDROP
@thatbellpull
@bmorefish_handcrafted
@perrier_projects
TEAM BISCUIT
@anniethacker
@andrea.made.that
@so_gingerly
TEAM ROASTED PECAN
@kyokotownmakes
@sudilaura
@bowdenisms
TEAM PEPPER
@benmillett
@crafty_giraffe
@saroy
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.