For the month of September, we will busy with making pillowcases with Conkerr Cancer's Miles of Smiles. ConKerr Cancer started when Cindy Kerr’s son was diagnosed with cancer in 2002 and she began making pillowcases to brighten up his hospital room and to put a smile on his face.  He loved it and so she began making pillowcases for other children on the Oncology Unit at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. 

Since then the pillowcase project, A Case for Smiles, has grown in amazing ways.  They have provided over 300,000 pillowcases made by thousands of volunteers from across North America and in South Africa.  School groups, sewing circles, church groups and fabric stores have all pitched in and are making pillowcases for the kids.  An exciting new program has been to take fabric and sewing machines to hospitals and sew with the patients and their families. ConKerr Cancer has been able to make amazing progress towards fulfilling their goal of making hospital stays as pleasant as possible for chronically ill children and their parents.  Simultaneously the pillowcase project has fostered a spirit of community and volunteer service in communities across North America. 

Help us with make these great pillowcases for this good cause!  

Our goal is to make 100 pillowcases - more will be even better!

If you have any questions, like to donate fabrics or even drop off completed pillowcases, please contact Wendy at wendy@appletreequilting.com .