Calling all quilters, sewers and crafters! American Patchwork & Quilting is challenging all of us to join up and participate in their “Make a Pillowcase, Make a Difference” campaign for charity.
To take part in the pillowcase project, just make a pillowcase, find a a shop hosting One Million Pillowcase Challenge events in your area, and donate the pillowcase to the shop! Every pillowcase will go towards making a difference in your community. Your pillowcases will provide comfort for a cancer patient, hope for a foster child, encouragement for a battered woman, or beauty for a nursing home resident. Over 7,400 pillowcases have already been donated, but lots of help is needed to reach the goal of 1 million pillowcases.
“We are asking quilters to make and donate 1,000,000 pillowcases to local charities to show the world how caring quilters are. As I travel the country, I often hear stories of generous quilt shops and quilters who have turned their hobby into a conduit for good in their communities. That is the same charitable spirit that drives this challenge,” said APQ editor Jennifer Keltner.
APQ has set up an online counter to track the number of donations. They also have free pillowcase patterns available for download and tips on where to donate. This is a great example of how one person can really make a difference. The C&T staff will be setting up a pillowcase lunch hour in 2010. How will you contribute?
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Count me in!
Can do!!!!!
Can do!!!!!
WHERE CAN YOU FIND THE PARTICIPATING SHOP
http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/millionpillowcases/findashop/index.html
You do NOT have to give your pillowcases to a quilt shop, you can donate them to the charity of your choice and then sign in on the AQ website. I have done 150 for our City Mission.
Check out the PillowCase Parties at our local shop: Satin Moon in Victoria, BC
Blog Posts: http://satinmoon.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/pillow-case-party-debut/
http://daphnegreig.blogspot.com/2010/01/pillowcase-party.html
We’re having a great time with this!
Sometime ago I submitted the name of a favorite charity. I said it was “Hope House” in Rochester, MN. That was incorrect–the name is Hope Lodge in Rochesster, MN. Our church has donated in kind gifts there and they are a wonderful facility, providing a place to stay for patients who are receiving cancer treatment along with a caregiver. I will try to forward you their story and requests. Thank you, Bonnie Norby
I am going through my years and years of collecting fabrics when I was making clothing for myself and the family. I started as of yesterda 6/21/10 and have started making the tube pillowcases and have 36 so far cut and ready to sew. Hopefully, just a co-matching cuff will be suitable for these pillowcases as I do not have time at the moment to do a lot of fancy work on them. I am going to try and get some friends to come and help me. I am a big time quilter and so have set that aside for a few days to get all this fabric cut for pillowcases. I am sure there are others out there with the same problem and this is a way to use lots of fabrics in large chunks which will still help someone. I make lots of quilts for charities but after awhile there is only so many ways to use some of this fabric up.
Hopefully using some cotton/polyester is permittable.
Thanks
Karen