Cross posted on Community Quilt Project
DavidW's quilt, showing backing
Last week, we started collecting messages for a love catcher quilt for peregrine kate. We received 25 -- but we will need at least 44 for a checkerboard quilt like JaxDem's:
JaxDem's quilt
Or 68 for one with a pieced block like DavidW's:
DavidW's quilt
They are both quite nice! But the larger quilt might be handier for peregrine kate while she is undergoing treatment. Right now, she is in the process of an aggressive chemo treatment for endometrial cancer. This will be followed by radiation treatment. We can send our words of love and support with Kate as she does what she needs to do to get well! We can help in this way.
Preview of the blocks for Jester the Marine's quilt
If you would like to leave a message for Kate, please do so in the comments below. If you would like to donate toward the time and materials it will take to make her quilt, here is a PayPal link -- or message me for a snail mail address if you prefer checks. A donation of $10 per message is suggested but not necessary -- please leave a message for Kate even if you cannot help with the funding! Your message matters.
Goldie, our quilt inspector, checks out Aji's quilt
These are the people who have left messages for peregrine kate so far:
1. Ann R (winglion)
2. Louisiana 1976
3. Otteray Scribe
4. blue jersey mom
5. ramara
6. cfk in the Thumb of Michigan
7. Ekaterin
8. Ulookarmless
9. Maggiejean
10. Ebby
11. DavidW
12. ProvokingMeaning
13. Betson08
14. Asterkitty
15. GlowNZ
16. ZenTrainer
17. Runaway Rose
18. John07801
19. Oke
20. Lorikeet
21. Kitsap River
22. RiaD
23. Sara R
24. Ooooh
25. Lightbulb
Detail of Aji's quilt
These are the community quilts we have made to date:
othniel (cellulitis and ensuing complications)
exmearden (cancer of heart and lung, RIP)
MsSpentyouth (brain tumor)
Moe99 (lung cancer)
Michelle Caudle (ovarian cancer)
BFSkinner (lupus)
Kitsap River (long wait for kidney donor that ended 2/18/11)
Frederick Clarkson (blood clots)
Dreaming of Better Days (lymphoma)
one bite at a time (lost house and belongings to fire)
Timroff (cellulitis)
Sol Fed Joe (multiple cancers and health problems)
Brubs (AIDS, immune reconstitution syndrome)
rserven (gall bladder infection with dangerous complications)
grndrush (brain tumor, RIP)
ImpeachKingBushII (needs liver transplant)
andsarahtoo (lupus)
Frank Cocozzelli (muscular dystrophy)
luvsathoroughbred (breast cancer)
Predictor (stroke and HIV)
Austex54 (caretaker to othniel)
Theodore Olbermann, RIP
cskendrick (antibiotic resistant infection)
Keith Olbermann (caregiver to father)
Juan (cancer)
Ana (a young horse belonging to Juan, hit by truck)
MA Liberal’s mother (Alzheimer’s)
Charles CurtisStanley (caretaker to Kitsap River)
Lorikeet (cervical cancer)
Dr. Lori (metastatic cancer)
ulookarmless (cancer, heart condition, stroke)
riverlover (caregiver to husband suffering from liver failure, now widowed)
Melody Townsel (caregiver to dying father, now deceased)
dadanation (AIDS)
Dr. William F. Harrison (leukemia, RIP)
Larry Bailey (sudden loss of partner to heart attack)
ramara (adopted son with fetal alcohol syndrome)
Noor B (herniated disk from car accident)
Louisiana 1976 (fibromyalgia, severe arthritis, depression)
stumpy (MS, stroke, RIP)
bleeding heart's niece (cancer, RIP)
escapee (failure of corneal surgery)
SarahLee (lymphoma, Lyme Disease)
Bustergirl (ovarian cancer)
mimi's niece (cancer)
ZenTrainer (breast cancer)
Miss Blue (severe injury to shoulder, anxiety over coverage for surgery)
Granny Doc (bladder cancer)
mango (heart attack)
nudger (ovarian cancer, RIP)
DaNang65 (heart condition)
Lt. Choi (exhaustion)
Nurse Kelley (spinal stenosis)
Ben Masel (lung cancer, RIP)
Otterary Scribe (caregiver and grieving grandfather)
Aji (chronic pain from autoimmune diseases including fibromyalgia, inflammatory arthritis, and Chronic Epstein-Barr Virus Syndrome)
JaxDem (suddenly widowed)
DavidW (AIDS and other undiagnosed illness)
Mimi's quilt, a work in progress
We have finally collected the needed messages for Jester Marine. They've been transcribed and heatset -- and about half of his setting blocks have been made (see above). I've ordered some cool dragon buttons from Three Feathers Pewter for him, as well! Jester loves dragons and blogs on DK as Iron Scaled Serpent -- so we want his quilt to look like the scales of his dragon totem!
Nurse Kelley's quilt
Quilts are planned for the following people:
alliedoc (cancer)
Sensible Shoes (caring for sister with brain cancer)
Plutonium Page (pulmonary embolisms, pulmonary infarction)
MsGrin (life long heart problems requiring multiple surgeries)
UnaSpensor (Lyme disease)
MA Liberal (caretaker to her mother who has dementia)
labwitchy (diffuse scleroderma)
paradox (cyclical vomiting syndrome, PTSD, depression)
Stranded Wind (Lyme Disease and other health issues)
woodtick (caretaker to mother who has Alzheimer's)
Ellinorianne (rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia)
Joanneleon (Lyme disease)
Ben Masel's quilt
I hope we can collect Kate's messages tonight. In the coming week, I will also be putting up a diary for alliedoc, also fighting cancer. And next Thursday, I will post a diary for a "love catcher" quilt for the Daily Kos Community, to hang in the Daily Kos offices.
DaNang65's quilt
PAYPAL LINK FOR PEREGRINE KATE'S QUILT -- THANK YOU!
Boots says, "Thank you for supporting the community quilts!"
Namaste.