APQ - 1 Million Pillowcase Challenge

Lollipops Designer Bindings joins the nationwide One Million Pillowcase Challenge, benefiting a local charity of your choice when you buy patterns, kits or both from us!

— American Patchwork & Quilting® magazine is challenging quilters, crafters and sewers across the country to Make a Pillowcase, Make a Difference. Local quilting enthusiasts will join the cause to help reach the goal of making and donating one million pillowcases to benefit local charities. Every pillowcase can make a difference in your community. A pillowcase can provide comfort for a cancer patient, hope for a foster child, encouragement for a battered woman, or beauty for a nursing home resident.

Throughout 2010, quilters, crafters and sewers across the nation will make pillowcases at their local quilt shops. The shops will then collect the pillowcases and donate them to a local charity of their choice and update the pillowcase counter at allpeoplequilt.com/millionpillowcases. The counter will track nationwide progress toward the goal of one million pillowcases. Laurie Malm, owner of Lollipops Designer Bindings, sees the One Million Pillowcase Challenge as a way to give back to the local community. “We can all make a difference in our community,” she says.

Joining American Patchwork & Quilting in support of the One Million Pillowcase challenge are 2010 sponsors: BERNINA, AccuQuilt, Clothworks, Handi Quilter, Moda, Paintbrush Studio, Presencia, Red Rooster Fabrics, RJR Fabrics, Robert Kaufman, The Fabric Shop Network, and Timeless Treasures.

One Million Pillowcase Challenge information is available at www.allpeoplequilt.com/ millionpillowcases.
WE WILL BE ADDING NEW PATTERNS THROUGHOUT THE MONTH - SOME ARE FREE DOWNLOADS AND OTHERS ARE PURCHASEABLE.