Juvenile Myositis

How can quilting make someone a hero? That was the question I was challenged to ask when I was introduced through a support group to Sue Carpenter, known by many in our circle as “the quilt lady.” This group wanted others to know about Sue and the way she sews back together the brokenness of [...]

My daughter is one in a million. We hit the lottery when she was diagnosed with a rare disease called juvenile myositis (JM) at 18 months old. “You could probably count on your hand the number of kids under two years old that have been diagnosed with JM in the last 10 years,” one of her [...]