Quilters in Laramie are wielding their sewing machines in the name of charity this weekend, joining a national movement that aims to create a million pillowcases in 2010. At Quilt Essentials, a quilt store in downtown Laramie, sewers of all ability levels are invited to come by on Saturday and Sunday to make a pillowcase, with the store providing fabric, directions, machines and snacks. To demonstrate the ease of making a pillowcase, Deveraux invited Laramie Lady Plainsmen basketball coach Rod Tyson to the store last week along with two of his players. The pillowcases being donated to the cancer center will cheer up patients in honor of Quilt Essentials co-owner Rose McNerney, who is undergoing treatment at the center, according to Deveraux.

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