Urban Jungle Stacked Slabs

Last fall the PCQ community service chair received a large donation of fabrics. Among them were a lot of black and white prints. She handed me a big tote bag full of them and asked me to do something with them. We discovered that among them were two colors of a Marcia Derse print, and there was a dark red colorway of the same print in the donation as well. 

I played around in EQ but I was never happy with anything I came up with. 

Recently I was reminded that the local family services agency that PCQ supports occasionally has a need for comfort quilts for teenage boys. In years past, we've seen that there seems to be an uptick in need at the end of the school year. 

So I pulled out the Marcia Derse prints and some others that read masculine and have colors that go together. Rather than fuss with a complex pattern, I let the fabrics do all the work with my Stacked Slabs pattern. (The fabric that looks pink here is actually red but if I try to darken it in the photo, everything else goes too dark.)

The result has kind of an urban vibe, but the featured prints had something about trees on the selvage, so for my own records I'm calling this Urban Jungle.

There was enough of the featured fabrics plus the other black and grey print left over to piece together a back. I'm certified on PCQ's new long arm, so as soon as registrations open up and I can book a time slot, I'll quilt this up. 

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