Pat Sloan: 2016 Charity Quilt Along, crossroads block #1

Every month I'll post about my journey of making my 2016 charity quilt with the Fat Quarter Shop.

In the comments below you can share about a charity project you are supporting. Maybe you are making quilts for your local firehouse, veterans, or womens' shelter. Whatever quilting and sewing charity you are involved with, you can list in the comments.  I have a category at the right side bar called 'Charity Roundup' so you can find this again. 

Doing charity work is incredibly meaningful to me. I've sewn, quilted and donated quilts for charity since I first started making quilts. 

Because giving your time and money to make a quilt for another is meaningful work, I want you to TELL us about the project you are involved with. Don't just stick an website there, that is not meaningful. Tell me why you are involved with it, what work is being done, how the money is spent that is raised, or who receives the quilts. Give a link to the organizations website too.

This year we are supporting the March of Dimes, and you can give a donation at the end.. thank you so much!

Now i need to decide on fabric for this quilt!

Here is 'Option A' with my batiks and Mochi linen dot (Links to fabric at the end)

In 'Option B' I pulled out the red, added some prints

This is such a soothing combination to me.. very much like the original. 

Or should I pop that red back in as 'Option C' shows?

The quilt has alternating chain block where i could use the red, or a mix of reds  to keep it interesting

Here is my fabric pull for the first block, which is SUPER fun!

I LOVE house blocks!

I made one, and really love working my Hometown Girl batiks with the linen

So what do you think? which fabric option? A, B or C?

This year the charity we are supporting is the March of Dimes foundation and we will be raising funds to help their efforts to fight premature births. We hope you will sew along and donate to this amazing cause through our fundraising link:

http://quiltalongforbabies.kintera.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=1149468

• download the Fabric Requirements PDF. 
• Download the FREE Pattern   We hope you'll donate to our charity!
• My Fabric
• The Linen Mochi Dots (yummy!)
• Loads of Aurifil thread options
• My cute little scissors!
• And if you want to make the original quilt, you can BUY THE KIT , they are LIMITED
• We will begin auctioning our quilt around September 1^st , 2016
• For more information about the quilt along, please visit the Fat Quarter shop Site

 

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