Announcement! Announcement! Riley Blake Designs is super excited to be sponsoring the Love Loud Quilt Project!
Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons founded the LOVE LOUD FOUNDATION to” help ignite the relevant and vital conversation about what it means to unconditionally love, understand, accept and support our LGBTQ+ friends and family.”
John, of BIG CITY QUILTS, saw this logo and received permission from the Love Loud foundation to use it to create a gorgeous paper piecing pattern to help raise money for Encircle House. John’s goal is to make 1 or more quilts to be auctioned off as a fundraiser for the Encircle House in Provo at their upcoming art fundraiser. Depending upon the number of blocks received, he would also like to make one for Dan and his family as a way to honor him for putting this foundation together.
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This is a wonderful way for the quilting community to use our unique craft to literally encircle our youth with love!
So, how to donate? Big City Quilts would love any blocks that you’d like to create using the pattern. If you would like to donate, but don’t have fabric please
email John your Name, Address and Instagram and how many you’d like to make and he will mail you a kit. Riley Blake Designs has donated fabric, so please let him know if you would like a kit.
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John will also copy the the pattern onto Foundation paper and send that with the fabric if you’d like.
You can download your pattern from the links below:
Here is an example of the colors John would like us to use in the blocks. He is requesting we use backgrounds of Black, White, or Grey.
Piecing Instructions:
Sew Left and Right sides individually. Use a colored fabric for # 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14 and 15. Use a background for all of the rest. There is one strip that goes down the center on each page. On the left side #1 is background and #2 is the same as #15. On the Right side side #1 is a color and #2, 3 and 4 are all background.
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The Deadline to mail these in is May 15. There is an art auction at the Encircle house in June and he would like to submit a quilt for that. John has said that it is possible they will auction one off on Instagram and donate the money to the LoveLoud foundation or simply donate it to the foundation and they can auction it off on their own. Follow John on Instagram @johnnybarfuss for the latest news on this worthy cause! You can see more fabulous blocks on Instagram using #loveloudquilt.
Please send blocks to: 1472 East Evergreen Lane, Salt Lake City, UT 8410
Happy Quilting!
