is part of a project of the Uncommon Threads Quilting Guild of Cordova, Tennessee, to decorate the walls of the new Women's Center at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis.

Healing Garden Quilt
The Healing Garden, 40 x 40 inch quilt

Part Two (the Kidney Cancer Quilt)

celebrates the successful transplantation of my kidney into my son. With God's help, we are hopeful that this "new" (slightly used) kidney will serve him well for the next several decades. This quilt is being donated to the Transplantation Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, in honor of Drs. Pavlakis, Monaco, and Uknis, and their entire team.

These quilts were created by Joyce Wilcox Graff, Boston, Massachusetts, July 2001, with thanks to God and my family. I had breast cancer in 1979, and am alive and well and able to be a kidney donor for my son in 2001. This is my personal miracle.

Design input from Dennis McGregor and Eleanor Burns. Quilted by Wilma Cogliantry, Berlin, Connecticut. Photographs by Matthew Zirakian. Many of the fabrics feature plants used to treat cancer, from a collection by Bonnie Benn Stratton for Timeless Treasures Fabrics.

The names included on the breast cancer quilt are friends who have had breast cancer.

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Sources for the fabrics:

The Quilted Garden, U.S.

Kaleidoscope Fabrics, U.K.

Detail showing the carrots, radishes, and 3-dimensional flowers

Detail. Healing includes both prevention (eat your veggies!) as well as cure (many of the fabrics depict plants used in the

treatment of cancer)

Joyce and her quilt in her garden
Joyce Graff and her quilt in her garden.