It’s a Monday morning at the Bear Canyon Senior Center in Northeast Albuquerque, which means the weekly knit and crochet volunteer group for Project Linus is meeting inside Classroom 5 at the center.
Sometimes, a gesture as simple as being wrapped up in a warm hug is all a person needs to get through a rough patch in life. For more than 50,000 San Diego children, that hug has arrived in the form ...
KINGSTON, N.Y. — Thirty years since the founding of the nationwide initiative Project Linus, the organization’s local chapter continues to provide blankets to area children in need. The initiative, ...
For Dee Nietschke of Lodi, happiness is a warm blanket. In 2019, she established the San Joaquin County branch of Project Linus. Taking its name from the blanket-toting Charles Schultz Peanuts comics ...
Thank you, Woodland, for your support in funding, fabric and yarn for the children of Yolo County and our Blanketeers. Yolo County Chapter Project Linus made/collected 1,814 handmade blankets to ...
When Ann Strautman learned of the deaths last year of two children who attended Galm Elementary School, she knew what to do. Strautman called a friend, a counselor at the school, and offered to donate ...
Project Linus, a volunteer-run nonprofit that provides handmade security blankets to children in crisis, celebrates its 30th anniversary this Christmas Eve. The date marks three decades since founder ...
Linus blankets are big hugs for children who need a little extra comfort, says Katy resident Sally Burns, the Houston Project Linus coordinator. "We are touching the lives of so many children in the ...
Do you enjoy quilting, knitting, or sewing? Join Project Linus to make blankets for children in the community who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need. The gathering will take place at ...