Today, in honor of Martin Luther King Day, we spent some time as a day of service making blankets for a group called Project Linus. Project Linus takes handmade blankets and gives them to seriously ill or traumatized children in need of some security and comfort. The kids each picked out a fleece that they liked for their blanket. I cut the fringe for the girls blankets and poked holes to loop the fringe through, but they both did all of the looping to secure and decorate the edges of their blankets.
Colin had a bigger task and cut all of the fringe on his by himself. I just helped with a little measuring and did the hole poking on his fringe too. It took us most of the morning (plus a couple of hours last night for me), but the finished product turned out good. We are off to drop the donations off this afternoon.
The only bad part of all this is now all three want to make a blanket for themselves. Looks like there will be another trip to the fabric store in my future.
Keith, you are all the best! Today has been a day of mopping floors and generally fighting the dirt of the wood stoves, and throughout I was thinking of all of you and your blanket making which put a smile on my face! Have been watching for a post. Beautiful -- the blankets and the children! Thank YOU!
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