Women using quilting project
to raise breast cancer awareness
BY I. AY LA I ARMIR
THE CHRONICLF.
Local breast cancer sur
vivors can pay homage to
Iheir triumphs over the dis
ease next month, by signing
a handmade quilt designed
with them in mind.
Clayton resident Audretta
Hall is bringing her message
of breast cancer awareness
and healthy living to the
masses through her Wrapped
in Love Breast Cancer
Awareness Quilt, which was
designed by Artist Winnie
Burch of New York City, and
stitched together by Hall's
mother. Henrietta Caldwell,
also of Clayton.
Hall, a store manager at
Buy Buy Baby in Durham,
says her personal journey to
health awareness begun eight
years ago. when she reached
a turning point in her life.
"I was 38 years old and I
could see 300 in the scale
window," related the
Michigan native. "1 hadn't
crossed over, but I could see
it on the horizon, and I did
not like the idea of that."
Determined to win her
body back from the clutches
of obesity. Hall took on one
diet after another. The
weight began to come off.
but it was a slow process.
She researched food and the
way different ingredients
impact the body. Once she
began to make more
informed choices about what
she ate. Hall, now 46. says
the pounds started melting
away.
"I started losing weight
so fast people thought I was
on crack." she quipped. "I
lost 50 pounds in like a
month and a half or two
months - it was so easy."
Lager to share the knowl
edge she had learned and how
good healthy food can taste.
Hall hosted a brunch for
friends and acquaintances.
Since the event was
staged in October. National
Breast Cancer Awareness
Month. Hall adopted a breast
cancer awareness theme,
using beet juice to give her
pancakes u festive pink hue.
The brunch was such a suc
cess that Hall hosted a sec
ond Pink Pancake Brunch in
2010
This year, she is hoping
to make an even bigger
impression on Triad women,
through the Wrapped in Love
quilt. She designed the quilt
by hand, incorporating the
Audretta Hall is an avid quilter. Here is one of her
creations.
colors of healthy foods she
hopes to encourage women
to eat. and enlisted the help
of Bureh, a Manhattan
native, who painted 12
squares with the unique
Spirit of the Women designs
she populates her greeting
card line. Moetleh Cards and
Messages, with. A mother
of three, Burch, 52, says she
began painting in earnest to
ease the pain of losing two
infant grandchildren. Her
designs are meant to be
uplifting and empowering.
Burch explained. Despite
being unemployed except for
the greeting card company,
Burch donated her work to
the effort.
"Their mission was so
amazing, the idea that it
would travel around, and 1
really wanted to be a part of
it," she commented. "...I
am not working, but some
times it's not about the
money. It's about what you
can do for the planet, what
you can ik> to help people,
because you never know
when you might be in that
boat."
Sections of the quilt will
be on hand in four
Greensboro locations next
month. Hall hopes to gath
er as many as 300 signatures
from area survivors and their
supporters before the quilt is
officially unveiled during the
Think Pink Affair in
Greenhorn on Oct. 30. Hall
plans to then take the quilt
on tour to reach an even
broader audience with her
message of health and hope.
"My hope is literally to
bring the message of health
to people and encourage peo
ple to get out and exercise
and be proactive about their
health," she declared.
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An avid quilter who
belongs to two separate
quilting guilds in her com
munity, Caldwell, a
Pittsburgh native, has also
dropped an enormous
amount of weight by adopt
ing a healthier diet. The
Wrapped in Love quilt is the
third quilt Caldwell, a lung
cancer survivor, has created
to promote cancer awareness.
"I know a lot of women
who are breast cancer sur
vivors, I can relate to that,"
said the 72 year-old mother
of five. "This is my mes
sage to them: cancer is not
the last word. God's got the
last word. It's life after can
cer - I'm a witness."
Caldwell said she was
happy to help Hall spread the
word about the importanee
of breast eaneer awareness
and healthy living.
"I am just so happy to
know that something that I
love so dearly that people
get excited about it," said
Caldwell, a widow who fell
in love with quilting after
learning of its rich history in
the African American com
munity and adopted the craft
after her retirement from her
job as a city bus driver in
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A udretta Hall
Henrietta Caldwell
Winnie Hurch
Detroit. "If this quilt gets
one woman to realize that
she's important enough to
take time to see about her
self, then it's worth it."
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