Comfort

Comfort & Chemo Items

These are the most important pieces I make. They change lives.

One of my favorite women in the world started a battle with cancer several years ago, and her son commissioned the first ever Chemo Pillow to give her for Christmas. It was bright, soft, and had pictures of her grandchildren and one grand-puppy. She took it to all her chemo sessions and it gave her solace and hope — and something to hold on to — during the grueling hours she had to spend at the hospital.

Since then I have made many comfort pillows and comfort bed and throw-quilts to comfort people going through medical struggles, grieving the loss of loved ones, enduring homesickness, or just having a tough time in life. The slideshow below shows some of these items.

SLIDESHOW TIPS: To start, click on the arrow in the middle of the screen. Once the slide show starts, you can click on the 4-arrow button at the bottom right of the presentation to enlarge the pictures to full-screen size. Hit “ESC” to come back to this page.

To see all of these pictures with more details, open the Flickr database page here.

To see smaller subsets of these pictures (comfort and gift pillows, comfort bed and throw-quilts), click on their names here.

*I will make one free chemo pillow for each of the first five takers who contact me during November of 2008. I’ll charge shipping of about $10 for each one, but I will contribute the materials and my labor for free.

Text Box: five free chemo pillows in memory of Jim Miller and Robert Little During the month of November, 2008, I will be offering free chemo pillows* in memory of Jim Miller and Robert Little, two brave, good men who put up a hell of a fight against cancer. To honor their spirits and their lives, I’d like to spread the comfort to a few more families. If you know someone who is still in the struggle, let’s make them a pillow. I like to think that it helps a little.