ROCHESTER, N.Y. — When going through something life-changing, support from those around you can be life-saving. For a woman who was diagnosed with cancer, that support is what helped her cope. Nancy ...
Chattering voices, the hum of sewing machines and the soft cadence of laughter filtered down the hallway leading to one of Valley View Hospital’s conference rooms on Friday. Armed with scissors, ...
“It’s just a quilt,” Cindy Champagne kept saying, seemingly still in disbelief at what some cloth and thread can nurture. But in the year that Champagne and Charlene Berry have been sewing their close ...
ROCKFORD (WREX) – One person is trying to help cheer up patients at a cancer center by stitching together a quilt. Catherine Rydberg created a quilt for patients at the SwedishAmerican Regional Cancer ...
GRAND FORKS — January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, and Grand Forks Public Health’s Women’s Way program is creating quilt displays to raise awareness. Three quilts will be displayed in Grand ...
In the IRMC Cancer Center, a quilt hangs as a memorial for those who have completed their cancer treatment, with the eventual hope that it will be coated with the signatures from a plethora of ...
Organizers of a quilting challenge in Athens hope it not only raises money for breast cancer detection services but provides decorations that demonstrate support for local women awaiting mammograms.
OHIO COUNTY, W.Va. (WTRF) – October is nationally recognized as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Recent studies have revealed a startling trend across the nation – more women are being diagnosed with ...
Organized by the National Cervical Cancer Coalition, the project features donated quilts that are on display in five area locations as part of Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. Pictured with the quilt ...
Over the past few months, the Roaring Fork Quilt Guild has been sewing up a storm with one mission in mind — to comfort cancer patients with handmade lap quilts. The Quilt Guild is always sewing for a ...