Quilt Blocks for Cancer

Today starts team Lucky Duck's new fundraiser for Relay for Life called Quilt Blocks for Cancer.  As many of you know I am a five year Stage 4 uterine cancer survivor.  I have had a desire to give back to those who suffer since I was cured.   Two years ago I started Team Lucky Duck to participate in Kernersville, NC Relay for Life event.  Friends and mostly family have helped me to raise money for the American Cancer Society.

Thats me in the braids.  Yep my hair grew back!

I have Lucky Duck tshirts for sale in my Etsy store and on my blog, all the money goes to Relay.

This year we will be unable to participate due to a family event. I would still like to raise money and would like my Blog family to participate as well.

I am asking you, my blog friends to send quilt blocks for me to assemble together to make a quilt to raffle off. The quilt block can be a memorial, in honor of, or just a celebration of life. I would like any 12.5" unfinished star blocks.  Applique, embroidery, words, and embellishments are welcome.  Cancer survivors are STARS and they should SHINE!  Here is a pattern for my favorite basic star block.  Or you could send a 5" square to use in the border with a message of hope written on it. 

I would like you to use bright, fun colors.  If you want to coordinate your colors with a certain cancer here is the link to what color goes with what cancer.  This should not be just a pink quilt. I want to honor all cancers.

Peach is the color of my cancer. The mother of one of my students died this year from ovarian cancer and I would like to use teal and create a block in memory of her.  I would like to collect the blocks through March 31st, assemble it  and find someone to quilt it for me in April, and raffle it in May and the beginning of June .  (Anyone willing to quilt it for me?)

Blocks can be sent to this address:

Colleen Yarnell

570 Cedarbook Ct

Lewisville, NC  27023

I am so blessed with my relatively good health.  I want to help fight for those who are not so lucky.  If you can not send a quilt block please consider donating to Team Lucky Duck.

Please share this with your friends and blog about it.  Use the Quilt Blocks for Cancer button to link to this blog page.Keep dreaming...Colleen

Me with my amazingly supportive parents and sister
when I was going through chemo.  I'm the one with no hair.  LOL!

Giveaway pics and an explanation

Found batteries for the camera here is the shirt and fat quarters picture. The pincushion and thread ends pan are for background.



I have to explain the whole Lucky Duck thing.  Once my chemo treatments were over I had a feeling inside me that I needed to find my dreams and as I always said "Just live".  I started checking off 'the list' in my head of things I always wanted to do but illness and shyness(I am very!) prevented me from doing.

First on the list was kayaking.  I had longed for a kayak for years!  I had researched them endlessly-its a thing I do, probably why I just finished my masters in library science.  The summer of 2007 I did endless trips to make up for the previous years of illness and no energy.  I tried kayaking in Beaufort, NC.  I LOVED IT!!!

Next came persuading Mom, Dad, and my sister Kelly to buy me one for Christmas, birthday etc.  I have loved it ever since.  But the duck part comes in on one of my first paddles in the lake where mom and dad live.  I found this dirty abandoned rubber duck floating in the lake.  I thought to myself as I fished it from the lake-"you really are a lucky duck I found you".  That was it.  Now that old rubber duck is the hood ornament on my kayak.  I take my kayak many places including my favorite lake in Canada.

 Rubber ducks became a symbol of my and the next chapter in my life.  I was the lucky duck and I needed to follow my dreams.  I started a Relay for Life team called the Lucky Ducks.  So full filling large dreams-setting up my quilt studio and small-singing karaoke, I am trying to "Just Live!!!" 

Thanks for entering my giveaway, make sure you comment on my previous post to do so.

PS Here is another giveaway, this one for scraps at The Child's Paper

Keep dreaming...Colleen aka 'butterflygirl'