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Please check out our Facebook page as we focus our attention there! 

We will be posting on that page from now on.

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More hurricane help

Our new Johnston County coordinators, Angel and Hailey, delivered 60 blankets of your blankets to people dealing with the effects of Hurricane Florence in Hampstead, NC. These folks have really been hit hard, so Angel was sensitive and did not take photos. Here is Hailey on their way to deliver your blankets.

More Hurricane relief

On Wednesday, seven Project Linus blankets brought smiles to three families in Wilmington.

Hurricane Florence Relief Update

Here are the blankets that we have sent so far for children affected by Hurricane Florence:

100 blankets went to evacuees in the Maxwell Center

in Goldsboro, NC.
40 blankets were delivered to Wilmington/ New Hanover

county foster care center.
50 blankets went with a Swift Creek Middle School

teacher to Atkinson, NC's Hurricane relief program.

70 blankets went to Hurricane Florence distribution

center in Lumberton NC.

33 blankets were dropped off by Girl Scout troop #2016

from Wilson Mills along with a load of donations to

Carteret County's relief program for evacuees of

Wilmington and Atlantic Beach.

Countless thanks go to Angel and Hailey, the new

Johnston County coordinators, for delivering all of these

blankets. If YOU know of a way to get blankets to

children in need, please contact me and

we’ll work on it together.

Susie

Blanketeers are BUSY!

We have been busy delivering your blankets to a variety of places to help evacuees from Hurricane Florence. The trickiest part has been reaching the individuals, but we've done it and are still working on it. I'll update soon as to where your blankets are going to help children on our coast affected by the hurricane.
In the meantime, you all have really gone above and beyond in helping provide tag blankets for Haiti. They asked for as many as we could provide for children who did not receive much loving touch, and you responded with 1361 blankets!

And, just to top it off, you gave 120 blankets to seriously ill children at Camp Victory Junction.

Hurricane relief

Thanks to Angel and Hailey, the new coordinators for the Johnston County, for delivering blankets to the Wilmington/ New Hanover county foster care center for people dealing with Hurricane Florence .

They will also deliver to Wake Med in Raleigh for the NICU babies who got transferred over from Wilmington due to the hurricane. Thanks for the team effort!

Primrose Of Hilburn Daycare

The fantastic staff of Primrose at Hilburn Daycare 

made some beautiful fleece blankets for Project Linus! 

Thank you all so much!

How to make a fleece blanket

Here's a fun video that explains one way 

to make a fleece blanket. 

Enjoy!

Fleece Blanket Tutorial

GiGi's Playhouse

Project Linus provides blankets to GiGi's Playhouse, a Down syndrome achievement center in Cary. Their work on embracing and accepting children with Down Syndrome was highlighted in the News and Observer on August 19, 2018. What a colorful place filled with cheerful people!

GiGi's Playhouse

N&O article

Good morning everyone! 

Melissa who picks up and labels for Project Linus, thought everyone would enjoy some photos of the latest blankets. 

I agree! Enjoy-

Carolina Princesses made 611 blankets!

The Carolina Princess Program passed last year's mark by more than 100 blankets. The young ladies work on blankets all year long and they are beautiful. The pictures in my garage don't do it justice. The blankets are immediately picked up by Project Linus volunteers who sew a fabric tag on each one and get it ready for delivery. It's an incredible effort by these young women and their director, Lisa Messick. Thank you!!

Cary Blanketeers - Come join us!

The Cary Blanketeers celebrated their 8^th birthday and 4000 blankets with a party this week. Everyone was challenged to make a special birthday blanket and this year’s theme was “It’s a Jungle Out There.” After brunch and a game of ‘Never-Have-I-Ever” (crochet edition), each member presented her blanket. For additional photos of some amazing blankets, see the group’s Facebook page.

The Cary Blanketeers meet twice a month at Macedonia Methodist Church near Joann’s on Walnut Street in Cary. New members are always welcome.

The 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month

10:00 am - 12:30 pm

Fellowship Hall

Macedonia United Methodist Church

2700 Jones Franklin Road, Cary

Treat yourself to a cup of tea and this video - happy Monday!

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Here's a great way to start the weekend - with the cheerful preschoolers from St. Raphael's making quilts for Project Linus! They've been making Project Linus quilts for years - one child I saw in preschool there years ago is now studying and playing football at NC State!

Project Linus gave 385 blankets to Wake County Health and Human Services last week.
Melissa and Kim distributed your blankets at the Wake County Foster and Adoptive Parent Forum. Thank you for bring comfort to all of these children.

THANK YOU to all of the volunteers who helped make our annual Make a Blanket Day on April 21 such a success.

On that one day, we delivered 680 blankets to Wake Med, Wake Med North, Social Services Adoption Forum and tornado victims in Greensboro. We made 324 blankets for deliveries in the next few weeks. Our raffle raised over $500, which will be used to buy fleece, yarn and fabric for more blankets!

Special thanks go to Deanna Winick, Janet Rapp, Diane Wallace and XFinigen Media for all of their hard work before and during the event. Here is a special video highlighting Janet:

Janet
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Thank you all for making our community such a caring place for children,

Susie Holmes,

Coordinator, Project Linus Wake County

Use these links to see all the videos highlighting some of our volunteers.

Thank you to Paul Bauman and his team at XFinigen for donating their time and talent to capture our passion of making blankets to children. Use these links! XFinigen will be at Make a Blanket Day to finish his filming!  See you this Saturday!

Lelia
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Sydney
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Deanna
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Matthew
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2018 MAKE A BLANKET DAY

for

Project Linus Chapter of Wake County

Saturday, April 21st 2pm to 6pm 

Temple Beth Or

5315 Creedmoor Road

Raleigh, NC 27612

Many thanks to Riverwood Middle School! 

Their Fellowship of Christians Club 

made cheerful, bright fleece blankets 

for Project Linus.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

2018 MAKE A BLANKET DAY

for

Project Linus Chapter of Wake County

Saturday, April 21st 2pm to 6pm 

Temple Beth Or

5315 Creedmoor Road

Raleigh, NC 27612

Camp Victory Junction Acknowledgement 

Each staff member was able to have a brick made on our Fan Walk here at camp.  I had a thank you brick made for the Project Linus Chapter of Wake County.  We just received the completed bricks and they were installed last week.  Attached is a photo of your group’s brick.  Thank you again for all your group does for our campers.  Each blanket is a small way they can take a little bit of camp home with them.  Your time, talents and contributions are greatly appreciated.

Shannon

 

Shannon Summerlin Craver                            
Victory Junction
Executive Assistant

Community Heroes

Project Linus thanks Marbles Kids' Museum for their ongoing support. 

They hosted Community Heroes Day in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and invited us to participate. We loved being a part of such a special day. 

Many thanks to all who helped us make blankets, and special thanks to 

Deanna Winick for organizing us!

The Community Services Committee from NC State libraries had lots of fun helping out Project Linus. Thank you so much!