Hello Blanketeers,
December 4th is blanket day at Our Saviour’s Lutheran
Church – 10:00 to 2:00. Plan to join us
for some work, and a noon luncheon to celebrate the beginning of the Christmas
Holiday Season.
Police
Officers – Pay It Forward
Dustin Parks,
Community Programs Manager at the SLC police department, will be handling a
program this year for troubled children to bond with police officers. If you want to observe this event the
children will be Christmas shopping with officers on the morning of December 16th
at the Walmart on Parleys Way – arriving there about 7:00 am. Everyone is pleased that our P L Chapter will
be donating scores of blankets for this event.
Santa’s (Project Linus) Helpers
These are our "Santa Bags" all ready to go out to 300 children before December 24th. We have to start early in order to get them to children in need of a blanket hug by Christmas.
They are headed
for: Refugee children, St Mark’s NICU,
Pioneer Valley Newborn, Guardian ad Litem, Army National Guard, DDI Vantage
program, Welcome Baby, Shriver Center, Police and kids shopping, and Life Start
Village (women’s and children’s refuge.)
This is Pat Ames who is an Etsy internet entrepreneur. She has donated 47 quilt-making kits to our
Chapter quilt makers. Pat found that
sewing quilts is very time consuming and it turned out not to be the enterprise
that fit her personality. She found that
quick turn-around-projects like collars and bows ties for pets worked better
for her.
Each quilt kit contains matched quilt bottom,
top, edging, binding, and even matching thread.
Our participating quilters will buy the batting to complete the quilts,
and the quilts will soon be in the hands of kids who need a blanket hug. Huge thank you to Pat for joining our
service to children in need.
A BIG THANK YOU
Our Chapter is 100% privately funded and operated by
volunteers who buy fabric, prepare fabric, sew, crochet, knit, label, package
and distribute blanket hugs to children age 0 to 18 years old.
Thanks to all our volunteers for a wonderful successful year
of giving to children in need.
BEST WISHES FOR
YOUR CHIRISMAS – MAY IT BE FILLED WITH LOVE. Millie
