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
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