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Comfort quilts offer warmth and healing

| Everyday Moments

A quilt with an embroidered red heart

Quilters feel good, helping others feel better

Comfort quilts offer more than warmth. They’re “works of art” and works of heart that let others know they’re not alone in their cancer diagnosis.

As Johny Gilson, a patient at the PeaceHealth infusion center in Ketchikan, Alaska said, "It's comforting to know someone else cares, knowing that you're going through a disease that not everyone gets through."

Meet Gail Alguire, one of the talented quilters behind the comfort quilts.

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