Article
Pillows For Cancer Patients Stitched with Love
… Evelyn Carle said she was done sewing. Needle and thread had been a part of Carle’s life for as long as she could remember. As a girl growing up in Iowa, she helped her mother make braided rugs. During World War II, she and her sister knitted caps and scarves for servicemen. And when her daughter walked the stage at graduation, she was wearing a dress … in bruises. Since 2011, Carle has been stitching and stuffing pink heart-shaped pillows for breast cancer patients in Omaha and Fremont. They’re given out free of charge to patients at …