To celebrate Black History Month, we’re hosting a fundraiser for UNCF featuring an incredible gift basket filled with sewing treasures from Fat Quarter Shop, Moda Fabrics, and Aurifil! The Quilter’s Dream Basket includes sewing notions and home décor items worth $700. For a chance to win, visit our campaign page and donate by February 28, 2025!
UNCF Fundraiser
Fat Quarter Shop is proud to support UNCF with Stronger Together, an annual fundraiser that has raised over $56,000 for UNCF since 2021. We encourage you to donate $15 or more to our UNCF campaign for the chance to win the Quilter’s Dream Basket! From now through February 28, 2025, 100% of your donation will help underrepresented students earn a college education. Fat Quarter Shop will match up to $5,000 in donations.
The mission of UNCF is to increase the total number of African-American college students and support them through graduation. They do this through awarding scholarships, providing financial support to historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and advocating for the importance of minority education and community engagement.
Your donation helps students like Nia continue their education. “I am Nia Wallace, a junior at Spelman College, GA. I am on a pre-law track, majoring in economics. I am on the dean’s list, and I am a member of several service and leadership organizations. I plan to go to law school and eventually work in public relations as a crisis communications specialist. The award I received, sponsored by generous donors like you, is helping me do all this.”
What’s in the Quilter’s Dream Basket?
The Quilter’s Dream Basket includes sewing notions and home décor items perfect for anyone who loves to sew. Enter for yourself or gift it to a friend!
The basket includes:
- 50wt Foundations Aurifil Thread Box
- Still More Paper Fat Quarter Bundle by Zen Chic for Moda Fabrics
- Sandalwood Fat Quarter Bundle by 3 Sisters for Moda Fabrics
- Rowenta Pro Master X-Cell Iron
- White Metal Quilt Block Bookends, a Fat Quarter Shop Exclusive
- Wooden Quilt Blocks Set, a Fat Quarter Shop Limited Edition Exclusive
- Sew Creative Quilty Journal by Fat Quarter Shop
- The Crafting Case, a Fat Quarter Shop Exclusive
- Kimberly’s Vintage Scissors with Sheath, a Fat Quarter Shop Exclusive
- 40oz Quilty Mug, a Fat Quarter Shop Exclusive by Swig Life
If every person reading this donated $15, we could quickly reach our goal of raising $5,000. When you donate, we will double your impact with a dollar-for-dollar match from Fat Quarter Shop (up to $5,000). PLUS, your donation – no matter how big or small – enters you to win an amazing prize basket of sewing supplies worth $700!
Update 3/7/2025: Congrats to our winner, Dana H! You have been notified via email and your prize will be shipping soon! Thank you to everyone who participated and donated to UNCF!
Giveaway terms
You can donate as many times as you like, but the drawing for the gift basket will be limited to one entry per person. Open to U.S. residents only. One winner will be randomly selected by March 7 and announced on our blog, The Jolly Jabber.
If you don’t have the ability to make a donation at this time, and would like a chance to win the giveaway, please fill out this form, providing your email address and contact information.
Looking for Something to Sew?
In previous years, we have hosted a Stronger Together Sew Along, and although we won’t be hosting one this year, you can find all the past patterns on the Stronger Together Page! If you’re looking for a project to make, check out one of these and share your project with us using the hashtag #FQSStrongerTogether2025.
Stronger Together 2025
Please donate today and share this fundraiser and giveaway with a friend. For updates, follow #FQSStrongerTogether2025 on Instagram. Thank you for your support!
Fundraising Update 3/17/25: We were able to donate $9,998.70 to UNCF this year!!
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14 comments
Why did you stop doing the sew along? I enjoyed participating while donating! It was fun getting to know the designers as well as learn some history!
I’m so glad you’ve enjoyed the sew alongs! We have, too. They require a few elements to coordinate, from available fabric collections to designers, and unfortunately, those pieces didn’t line up for this year. We hope to continue these sew alongs in the future. If you have recommendations or suggestions for designers and quilters you would like to see involved in the future, please send them to jocelyn@fatquartershop.com. We hope you’ll join in our fundraiser this year. We’re excited to continue supporting UNCF and the work they do.
Donated to a a wonderful cause! Thank you for supporting this fund. You ROCK!
Wonderful cause, so happy to see your company supporting it for another year in a row!
I also would like to know why Fat Quarter Shop is not doing a sew along this year. There are many black pattern and quilt makers out there plus black quilters that support your company.
We have really enjoyed doing the sew alongs, and we hope to continue them in the future when we can get all the elements coordinated! We would love to hear any recommendations or suggestions you have for designers and quilters you would like to see involved. You can send them to jocelyn@fatquartershop.com, and we hope you’ll join in our fundraiser this year to support the amazing work UNCF does!
I donated. Thanks so much for doing the fundraiser even if things didn’t come together for a quilt SAL.
Thanks for doing the fundraiser. I look forward to the SAL returning in the future.
What a great cause. Thank you for sponsoring this and the dollar matching. Very generous and very kind of you.
Always love to support a worthy cause such as this. The matching amount just adds to the efforts to raise money for these kids. The prize basket is awesome! A fabulous collection to win indeed!Thank you Fat Quarter Shop for always raising the bar. I am so proud to help and hope others can too.
I love the sew alongs, especially the Halloween and Christmas ones, I miss the live streams. What happened to them? Is Kimberly doing them less frequently? Just love everyone at Fat Quarter shop! They are so patient, helpful and friendly! Thanks you!
What fabric was used in the Quilt that you are showing now from 2022?
While I miss the SAL, I’m glad you are still having the fundraiser part. Did I miss this being mentioned in the live stream? Thanks again for your hard work.
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