January 2020 – Project Linus Newsletter
New year wishes for all you wonderful Blanketeers
BLANKET MAKING DAYS
We will start our new year with blanket making days at OSLC on Monday January 6th and will work from 10:00 to 2:00.
Riverton group will make blankets on Friday, January 24th from 9:30 to noon at Riverton Senior Center.
Join us for either, both, for whatever amount of time you can spend with us. It’s happy work and rewarding to see the lovely blankets produced.
SALT LAKE REGIONAL HOSPITAL
This year we will be picking up a new NICU to include in our deliveries. Salt Lake Regional Hospital, downtown Salt Lake, will be needing about 30 baby blankets (either fleece or receiving blankets) each month. We are so pleased to present their moms with a gift of a Linus blanket as they take their new babies home.
PAY IT FORWARD – SLC UNIFIED POLICE
We participated in the Christmas Pay It Forward event sponsored by the Unified Police Department. Officer Dustin Parks picked up 75 blankets to give to children at their event on December 7th.
The event is planned each year for children who have experienced law enforcement crises in their lives. Officers befriend them one-to-one, drive them in police cars (complete with sirens and flashing lights) and take them shopping for Christmas gifts at Walmart. In addition to picking out gifts they choose, each child may pick a Linus security blanket as well as a new back- pack.
A THANK YOU RECEIVED
Children’s thank you notes are received often.
Thought I would try to put one here for you all to see one:
Children’s thank you notes are received often.
Thought I would try to put one here for you all to see one:
MAKING QUALITY BLANKETS
We always encourage local groups to participate by hosting their own blanket making day. However, making fringe fleece blankets seems to have “gone viral.” It’s great that people want to make them, but we need to explain that they cannot be made properly in an hour by a group of untrained participants who have not the proper equipment and directions.
Sadly, we have been overwhelmed recently with poorly made fleece, fleece tied in knots, etc. and have had to recut them and start over to make a proper blanket.
This problem can be solved by checking with our chapter to determine the needs, the patterns, the quality of work, and the numbers of fleece blankets that we can accept.
What’s Next?
I am happily looking forward to another year as coordinator of the SLC chapter of Project Linus. This will be my 5th. Patsy has been assisting officially for 2 years. We are also happy to announce that we have finished our year end reports and realized that your combined efforts added to an amazing total of 2744! delivered security blankets.
Happy Linus New Year, Millie and Patsy
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