Project Linus volunteers are known as 'blanketeers". They provide new, handmade, washable blankets to be given as gifts to seriously ill or traumatized children, ages newborn to 18. Blankets of all sizes and styles (quilts, tied comforters, fleece, crocheted, knitted, receiving) are acceptable, as long as they are homemade, washable, free of pins, and come from a smoke-free environment.
Project Linus is a 100% volunteer organization, with chapters in almost every state. Our local contact, Susan, assures us that all the blankets our group donates will be distributed here on Cape Cod.
Several members of Stitching Tales are already hard at work on beautiful knitted blankets to donate to Project Linus. We are also planning a group project, in which individual knitted or crocheted squares created by our members will be joined together to form one or more patchwork blankets. Everyone can contribute.
As you probably know, March is National Craft Month, the perfect time to put your creative talents to use. Come on, ladies (and gentlemen!), pick up your needles!
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I am a "blanketeer". Just finished my first blanket for Project Linus and can't wait to try another pattern. Practicing for when I have grandchildren! Ha! Ha! Happy knitting!!!!
ReplyDeleteI just dropped off two blanket at the Cape Cod Cooperative Bank in Y'pt and was made to feel so special. Our blankets will be either at Cape Cod Hospital Maternity Ward (I was told that there are some little ones that go home without a blanket, that isn't right) or to Children Services on Cape Cod. All of these blankets stay on Cape Cod. Maybe someday we will see our blankets being used by some very special person.....
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