Quilting for a Cause: Ankeny Area Quilter's Guild Makes a Donation

After over 150 pillowcases, Louise Whitlow (pictured below on the left), is still sewing away with the help of the Ankeny Area Quilter’s Guild. Whitlow and the guild have been making pillowcases for Camp Heart Connection’s Oncology and Sibling Camps for the summer of 2010.

“We have a family member with leukemia and she got to know the kids in the chemo room and I thought it would be good to give them to the camp after talking to Brecka,” said Whitlow. ” I am Vice President of the Guild and the VP picks a project for the year. I came up with the pillowcases because of my family member when we were trying to perk her room up at the hospital.”

It takes about 20-30 minutes to make each pillowcase depending on the skill of each member.  The pillowcases begin by cutting up all the fabric into patterns and then making them into kits that can be sewn at a later time.

“I have one sewing group that has done at least 1,400,” said Whitlow. “They get an assembly line going and it is fun to watch them go.”

The Ankeny Area Quilter’s Guild has made and donated 1,600 pillowcases since last September to places such as Children’s Cancer Connection, Blank Children’s Hospital, Methodist Oncology Center, Mercy Hospital, nursing homes, hospices, and the Mentor Iowa. Once they are done with the pillowcases for Children’s Cancer Connection they will pick a new project and continue sewing away for other great causes.

Children’s Cancer Connection would like to thank the Ankeny Area Quilter’s Guild for their generous donation! For more information about the Ankeny Area Quilter’s Guild, visit their website by clicking here.