ConKerr Cancer  

ConKerr Cancer is an organization that makes bright cheery pillowcases for children in the hospital at Shands and AGH.

Website: www.ConKerrCancer.org 

Contact: Cherron Faulkner, cherrconkerr@comcast.net (Summerfield, FL)

Drop Off Site: A-1 Sewing, Gainesville, FL

What they do: ConKerr Cancer is an organization that makes bright cheery pillowcases for children in the hospital.  These children are at Shands or AGH for cancer treatment or have other life changing illnesses.  The mission of ConKerr Cancer is to make life brighter for children with life changing injuries or illnesses.   

What YOU can do to help: Volunteers are needed to either donate fabric that can be used to make pillowcases, or to actually buy the fabric and make the pillowcases themselves.  Finished pillowcases or fabric donations can be dropped off at A-1 Sewing, 2005 NW 43^rd St., Gainesville, FL (in the Publix shopping center on the corner of 43^rd and 16^th).  Directions for making the pillowcases are as follows: 

• Use cheery fabrics – as colorful and fun as possible  
• Remember many patients are adolescent boys and girls, so there is always a need for pillowcases appropriate to teenagers   
• Cotton or flannel fabrics only
• Please wash the fabrics before sewing the pillowcases 
• After finishing each pillowcase, place it in its own clear Ziploc bag.   

Directions for making one standard pillowcase: 

Supplies :  3/4 yard of fabric for pillowcase; 1/3 yard of another type of fabric for border of pillowcase  

Sewing Instructions : 

1. Cut the body of the case 26 1/2″ x 40 1/2″ and the border 10 1/2″ x 40 1/2″.  
2. Fold the border in half lengthwise, with the wrong sides together, and press.  
3. Place the right side of the border on the right side of the body of the case. Stitch together using a 1/2″ seam allowance.  
4. Place right sides of the pillowcase together. Stitch down the side and across the bottom. Turn to the right side and press.