Saturday, May 26, 2012

June newsletter

May 26, 2012 Blankets delivered: 8950      

Dear Blanketeers,
 Welcome to the new Blanketeers who have joined our chapter during the past month, we’re so glad to have you with us and hope you’ll love Project Linus as much as we do.   Be sure and let Kristin, Melissa or Millie know if you have any questions.  We appreciate everyone’s time & commitment to our chapter!
“Make a Blanket Day” for the north VALLEY WILL be monday, June 4th.. come join us at Our Saviour’s Lutheran church 3900 S. 2500 E. From 10-2.   Bring your lunch – we have a wonderful time!!

The next South Valley “Make a Blanket Day” will be tuesday, JUNE 19th at the South Jordan Library from 10:15 – 12:45 ****notice shorter time*****.  we’d love to see you there!  Unfortunately no food at the library L  the library has a summer program, what will shorten all of our meeting times this summer.

On May 14th – Kristin & Melissa travelled to William Penn Elementary in Salt Lake to receive coloring book quilts from Mrs. Hunters 3rd grade class.  They colored quilt blocks & Margo Hansen (who volunteers at the school & has a granddaughter in the 3rd grade), who is also a part of Square Corner Quilters assembled & donated 5 beautiful quilts!  The students were able to show the quilts off at the school art show before donating them to Project Linus.  These quilts are amazing & so well done!  We so appreciate getting children involved.  Also another shout out to Kathy Morrow & Jean Ann *Mountain Vista* who assembled our other coloring book quilts.  They are at Highland Park Elementary for the students to enjoy before we package for delivery.  They are so amazing!!

We need a new tag printer!!  Let Kristin know if anyone has the access or ideas on who to contact.  The tags are double sized, printed on cardstock & used when we package a blanket.  If we have to pay for them, the cost is atleast $.40 a sheet.  I’m hoping we can find a company or printing service who’d like to make a donation to our chapter!

we are so excited!!!  We shipped 3 huge boxes & 1 smaller box for taps & their grief camp, this memorial weekend in arlington, va.  our chapter donated 132 blankets!!!!  way to go!  i know this project is very dear to many of you.  Thank you to all who made this effort possible!  Also, a huge thank you to larry holmes (husband of blanketeer carol) for his donation to cover the shipping costs.  that donation with the shipping discount offered by cody at our local herriman, ups store made the whole effort work!  for more information about where the blankets go see http://www.taps.org/

I am usually asked about what sizes we need.  Of course, we always need them all!! Lately we are running really low on our teen sizes (large, 2 yards) and even a little low on mediums (1.5 yards).  Also, please make sure you are buying big kid print on the large blankets.  They love the solids, animal prints & anything “teen” ish.
Thank you to everyone who contributes to Project Linus in Salt Lake County.  Whether you make blankets, sew labels on, package blankets, donate funds for shipping and stamps, or donate paper, yarn or fabric, each one of you helps to grow our chapter so we may give a little bit of love and security to a child in crisis.  Every little bit helps & makes the world go round!
Happy June & hugs to all,

Kristin, Melissa & Millie

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

a note...

This is from Linda at the downtown Guardian ad Litem location


Thank you so much for all those lovely blankets you brought last week.  They are amazing.  I am beginning to notice some real creativity and I love them.  Your women are so thoughtful.  Thanks again and again.  We so appreciate you.
 

newsletter May 2012


April 26, 2012                                     Blankets delivered: 8841      

 Dear Blanketeers,
 Welcome to the new Blanketeers who have joined our chapter during the past month, we’re so glad to have you with us and hope you’ll love Project Linus as much as we do.   Be sure and let Kristin, Melissa or Millie know if you have any questions.  We appreciate everyone’s time & commitment to our chapter!

Be sure and check out our blog - slcprojectlinus.blogspot.com.  On the blog you’ll find the current newsletter, updates on blanket donations, instructions for making fleece blankets (great for people who can’t attend Make a Blanket Days and want to make fleece blankets), and do’s and don’ts. 

“Make a Blanket Day” for the north VALLEY WILL be monday, May 7th.. come join us at Our Saviour’s Lutheran church 3900 S. 2500 E. From 10-2.   Bring your lunch – we have a wonderful time!!

The next South Valley “Make a Blanket Day” will be tuesday, may 15th at the South Jordan Library from 10:15 – 2:00.  we’d love to see you there!  Unfortunately no food at the library L

On April 10th Kristin, Melissa & Millie were back at Highland Park Elementary in Salt Lake for coloring book quilts.  We traced pictures on muslin & ironed them onto freezer paper.  The students used fabric markers to color the pictures, which are currently being made into quilts!  This is a great way to get younger children involved in Linus & I’m so excited to see how the quilts turn out.  Thank you to my wonderful quilt makers: Kathy Morrow & the ladies at Mount Vista Methodist Church for all your work.  I plan to post pictures to the blog of the completed quilts.  We will take the quilts back to Highland Park so the students can see their amazing work before school is out for summer break.

Thrivent Financial Service for Lutherans has generously donated $800 to our chapter.  We’ll use the funds for blanket making supplies, mail and shipping supplies, and a few chapter expenses i.e.: brochures and paper.   Thank you, Thrivent for your much needed donation and to Bernie Sprecher for doing the leg work.

We are wrapping up TAPS blankets.  Thank you to all who have donated so far, I’m so excited because we will be shipping more than 100 blankets from our chapter this coming month!  the last day to turn in taps blankets will be monday, may 7th.  please contact kristin if you have any to donate & we’ll get them picked up.  I’m so excited we can participate as a chapter & be able to contribute to such an amazing group.  for more information www.taps.org our blankets will be given to children attending a grief camp in arlington, va memorial weekend.

A giant thank you to Britton & her husband who have been so generous to our chapter & recently printed us 1000 blanket tags!  These are the tags that are attached on top of every blanket we deliver.  We so appreciate your time & donation from Target Bank in the form of printing.  The sad news…Britton’s husband is changing jobs & will no longer be able to provide us with tags.  We are researching & reaching out to see if anyone of our blanketeers know of anyone in the printing business or knows anyone that can help us with this part of our expenses.  The cost to print double sided cardstock adds up very quickly & our chapter is lovingly funded by donations only.  We receive no funding from corporate.  Please email or call Kristin if you know of anyone.  Thanks!


Thank you to everyone who contributes to Project Linus in Salt Lake County.  Whether you make blankets, sew labels on, package blankets, donate funds for shipping and stamps, or donate paper, yarn or fabric, each one of you helps to grow our chapter so we may give a little bit of love and security to a child in crisis.  Every little bit helps & makes the world go round!
Happy spring (almost summer) & hugs to all,

Kristin, Melissa & Millie