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NEWS Jenny donated much of the fabric that was donated to our Chapter last Fall, to other nonprofit groups and to Blanketeers who are using it to make PJ quilts. Jenny also sold fabric to those who wanted some for personal use, rasing $2,700 for the chapter. See Jenny's article and photos of all that fabric in our January 2009 newsletter. Use GoodSearch.com as your Internet search and shopping portal to raise money for Project Linus. Find out more at the GoodSearch site.
Blanket Beacon, Project Linus national's new newsletter, is now available to read online. Check out Issue 1.1. You can sign up to receive future issues by email.
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Providing Security Through Blankets
JENNY GIACOMINI, Chapter Coordinator
Est. May 2003
The world grows cynical, more divisive. Epithets are slung back and forth, often without regard for the realities of daily life. Through it all are the children. Mother Nature does what she does, and families, entire communities, may be swept away in mud or water, collapsed and crushed by the Earth making itself more comfortable. Cancer, homelessness, lonely births and dying too young, life is here and now for children. There is no big picture for them.
Through the upheavals great and small, affecting one family or many, people armed only with needles and hooks and fiber and fabric have been knitting, crocheting, and sewing useful and comforting things for strangers in places far way, lives far from their own even if only just across town.
There are many different kinds of needs, not all of which can be filled by a bureaucracy. When the world goes crazy and you feel like a speck of dust, the gift of a blanket from someone who made it with love and care, someone who doesn't know you but knows your need to feel safe and warm and loved and cared for in a life gone crazy, who made this for you to hug and to hold and wrap yourself up in without asking anything in return, is huge. Huge enough to help these children work with their loss, help give them the strength to pick the pieces of their lives and move into what lies ahead.
Whoever said "nothing in life is free" never met a Project Linus blanket.
As of June 30, 2009, our Chapter made 5,073 blankets and donated 4,970.
Nationally, as of March 31, 2009, the 405 chapters of Project Linus have delivered 3.005,937 blankets.
Looking for some patterns to make your own Project Linus blanket? Check out the links below. If you need a Portable Document File (PDF) reader, you can download one for free from Adobe Acrobat, CuteFTP, FoxIt, or PrimoPDF.
Many local merchants--sewing centers, fabric stores, and yarn shops--help support Project Linus by sponsoring events and making themselves available as drop-off sites for Blanketeers to bring their finished blankets. Project Linus is a 501(c)3 organization, making donations of materials and money tax deductible. Local donors include:
Juliette Babcock, of Elf Hand KnitwerksTillie Angus, of Sonoma Yarn
Several local interest groups donated blankets their members made, or materials that could be passed on to Blanketeers to make into Project Linus blankets:
Knit-WitsSanta Rosa Sewing Guild
All Purpose Knitted Afghan PDF
About Project Linus
Our mission is simple: to provide love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to children who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need. We do this by giving them gifts of new, handmade blankets and afghans, lovingly created for Project Linus by volunteer "blanketeers."
The Blanketeers are part of our mission, as well: to provide a rewarding and fun service opportunity for interested individuals and groups in local communities, for the benefit of children.
