Post by Andrea Paden
Cozy Quilt Shop is proudly participating in the One Million Pillowcase Challenge sponsored by AllPeopleQuilt.com. This is a terrific program taking place during the entire 2010 year is designed to inspire people of all ages to make a pillowcase for those in need. A pillowcase can provide comfort for a cancer patient, hope for a foster child, encouragement for a battered woman, or beauty for a nursing home resident. A homemade pillowcase is a cozy, happy and personal way to show you care.
Cozy Quilt Shop has picked two wonderful causes that have agreed to accept our donated pillowcases: ConKerr Cancer and TS Workhorse &TS Thunder.
ConKerr Cancer is organization that provides colorful, cheerful, handmade pillowcases to children battling cancer and other life threatening illnesses at Rady Children's Hospital, The Ronald McDonald House, and other local pediatric wards, and pediatric hospices.
If you want to learn more about this amazing organization, the boy who inspired it and the woman and son who started it, visit ConKerrCancer.org. Bring your tissues. This one will touch everyone.
If you are making pillowcases for ConKerr Cancer, please follow their simple guidlines:
- Use new, quality fabrics in bright cheerful colors,
- Do not wash the pillowcases as some detergents bother these children,
- Please place each pillowcase in a quart size ziplock bag.
Our other great cause is very different, but in some ways the same. We are in touch with a grass roots effort to make pillowcases for our U.S. Military troops in Afghanistan. They too appreciate the soft feel of a handmade pillowcase as a reminder of home, family and better days. These pillowcases for Task Force Workhorse & Task Force Thunder will be mailed to chaplains stationed with the troops in Afghanistan and will be given directly to the troops. Most of them are male, so keep your pillowcases masculine with maybe a few feminine ones.
The AllPeopleQuilt goal is for 1 million pillowcases to be donated. You can check their current tally at the 1 Million Pillowcase Challenge page on AllPeopleQuilt.com. At the time of this post, 34,556 pillowcases had already been collected!
Our Cozy Quilt Shop goal is 3,000 pillowcases! We've got all year, so there is no reason we can't do it! Won't you participate? We already have 303 pillowcases donated at Cozy!
MAKE A PILLOWCASE, MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
To participate in this fantastic event, you are going to need a pillowcase pattern! To make it as easy as possible for you, you can find some simple patterns at AllPeopleQuilt.com's 1 Million Pillowcase Challenge page or at ConKerrCancer.org.
Bring your completed pillowcases to Cozy Quilt Shop at 2940 Jamacha Road, Ste. H in El Cajon, CA 92019.
Here are a few samples to give you inspiration!
Adorable I'm up for the challenge as well!!!
Posted by: Elizabeth | January 15, 2011 at 02:57 AM