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Once a month, Lynne and some of her friends gather to sew and stuff heart-shaped pillows for breast cancer patients at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL. These soft pillows provide much needed comfort to post-surgery breast cancer patients
The idea came to Lynne, a breast cancer survivor herself, when her daughter received two pillows after a double mastectomy. Lynne used one of her daughter’s pillows as the pattern for sewing her own heart-shaped pillows. Shortly after that, Lynne’s granddaughter needed a project for her high school community service requirement. Lynne, who loves sewing, organized and oversaw her granddaughter and a few of her friends, teaching them how to make the heart-shaped pillows.
When the service project was completed, Lynne decided to continue making the soft, colorful pillows…and her monthly group was organized. Now Lynne, along with Susie, Jeannie, Janice, Brenda, Joyce, Evelyn & Nena, sew and stuff pillows and Lynne delivers them on her volunteer day at Moffitt. They commit to making 624 pillows per year.