Suggestions for a cancer quilt
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Suggestions for a cancer quilt
My daughter's BFF (who is late 30s) has been diagnosed with late stage breast cancer and is facing chemo, radiation and a double mastectomy and I wanted to make her a quilt to take to the chemo treatments. Does anyone have any suggestions on a pattern, etc. I have a nice pattern of a pink ribbon but not sure if someone going through this would like to be reminded of the disease.
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The first one I made I did a garden trellis pattern (looks like intertwined circles) with alternating pink and green and used a pretty floral back ground with a pieced twisted ribbon border. And, I used a green fern print flannel for the back. She loved it, she took it to every treatment and spent many recovery days cuddled up in it. I made it almost twin sized so she would get good coverage. She said she loved the flannel on the back, as she got cold during the treatments.
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My thoughts too. Everyone has their own feelings on such a personal thing. Personally, I wouldn't want the standard pink ribbons. Just something pretty and comforting.
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Thank you. I didn't want to use the actual ribbon pattern. But, at the same time, the pink ribbon is such a great symbol of strength and hope I wanted that powerful feeling to be included, tomsurround her. I feel it is important for these quilts to be beautiful and feminine. And cozy!
#9
My avatar can be found at quilterscache.com,the pattern is pink ribbon quilt. I also think that this pattern would be nice also and goes together quilckly... http://charismascorner.com/?page_id=2652
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My daughter's BFF (who is late 30s) has been diagnosed with late stage breast cancer and is facing chemo, radiation and a double mastectomy and I wanted to make her a quilt to take to the chemo treatments. Does anyone have any suggestions on a pattern, etc. I have a nice pattern of a pink ribbon but not sure if someone going through this would like to be reminded of the disease.
And Suze, I love your quilt.
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