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Victoria's Quilts offer comfort to cancer patients

While it's important to continue supporting research, donations can feel impersonal, especially to those whose lives have been touched by cancer and who seek direct ways to support people battling the disease. Is there anything a layperson can do to help in a personal but meaningful way?

Victoria's Quilts Canada has a suggestion. The mission of this national non-profit charitable organization, headquartered in Ottawa and with branches across the country, is to bring comfort to people with cancer by providing them with hand-made quilts, free of charge. The organization was founded in the United States by Deb Rogers and named in honour of her sister-in-law who was a quilter and had died from cancer. With Deb's blessing, Betty Griffin began the Canadian organization in 2000, with just 12 volunteers. Branches are now flourishing across Canada and in the last 11 years have comforted and soothed the spirits of several thousand Canadians undergoing treatment.

Source: Moncton ThisWeek

Cotton Hat chemo News

Area women volunteer time to make caps for chemotherapy patients

Oshkosh Northwestern - Jan 01, 1970

Holmes said those in Stitches of Love do two types of fabric caps. They make a soft and sturdy pillbox cap that stretches and a kerchief-style cap made of cotton fabric. The group also knits booties for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.

Victoria's Quilts offer comfort to cancer patients

Moncton ThisWeek - Jan 01, 1970

Jane Sunderland of Moncton first heard of Victoria's Quilts when her husband, Vince, a vice-principal at Riverview High School, was undergoing chemotherapy and radiation and a friend, Liz McLaughlin, ordered a quilt for him.

Stitching seniors lend hand to aid cancer patients

McMurray Almanac - Jan 01, 1970

"Some of the clubs haven't worked out, but what makes this special is what they do," Gross said of the chemo caps. "They are so passionate and so proud of what they do." But knitting is not the only activity. McAnulty has patterns for cotton dresses

The trouble with my blood

The Guardian - Jan 01, 1970

She had been diagnosed with breast cancer in June 2010, had a mastectomy in August, followed by a gruelling autumn then winter of chemotherapy and a silent spring of radiation. My wife bore her illness in a manner that demanded nothing but admiration.