April, 2015
Welcome Spring Blanketeers,
The snow and the cold seem to
be lingering this year. But on the plus side, an awful lot of beautiful
blankets, quilts and knitted or crocheted afghans and fleece blankets have been
donated by our wonderful Blanketeers. So I guess a cold and long winter can be
a good thing.
April 18th
Please join NWPA Project
Linus on Saturday April 18th for our Annual “ Appreciation Day” @ Yaple’s Vacuum & Sewing 801 W.26th
Street, Erie, PA Time: 10:00-2:00. There
will be refreshments, drawings on the half hour, material ,yarn and patterns
for you to choose from to perhaps finish or start a new blanket for a child in
need. Also a time to meet other Blanketeers and share your ideas.
Mercyhurst University’s Alpha Beta Pi Chapter of the
International KDP Education Honor Society and the Student Activity Council:
Held their first ever
Zumba-thon on March 21st in the Rec Center @ Mercyhurst University,
about 70 students moved to the music, with directions from Lacey Tanner and
Kristen Lorei. The girls raised $300.00 on that afternoon. Way to go girls !!!!
ODDS &; ENDS:
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A Blanketeer has
requested if anyone has some of those older panels with characters on them and
are not using them, or sees them during the Garage Sale Season to get them and
contact me. We can make arrangements for pick up and reimbursement.
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UPMC Hamot NICU has
an ongoing need of gently used receiving blankets- store bought, that they use
to support the tiny heads of the infants in their carriers. They can be dropped
off at all of our local drop off locations.
REMINDERS:
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When you complete
you blanket, please check to make sure that there are no pins left behind.
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In making a
fleece blanket- cut the 2 salvage sides of the material before you start to cut
your strips for tying or before you use your skip stitch blade and crochet
around the fleece.
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In the upcoming
months our calendar is a bit full of fun activities, if you are interested in
helping with any of these events, please let me know.
With all of the fun events that are coming up, many of
you Blanketeers have responded to my request of assistance in cutting the
several bolts of muslin needed to be prepared for those events. Still more help
is needed and as I have the muslin ready, I will let you ladies know. Thank you
so very much.
In the event of severe weather please go to our
blogspot and face book page listed below to see if our meeting may be
cancelled. That way we are not interfering with the Quilt Shoppes daily
business by calling them.
Monthly meetings:
April 1st - Millcreek
Sewing Center 6044 Peach Street 1:00pm- 4:00pm
April 13th - Yaple’s Vacuum & Sewing 801 W.
26th Street 9:00am-11:00am,
Looking
Ahead:
April
18th – Appreciation Day- Yaple’s Vacuum
& Sewing 10:00-2:00
May
2nd- “ Sew
In Day” @ Hampton Inn 10:00-4:00
May
8th- Art
Day @ Our Lady Of Peace School
July
29th-
Senior Day @ the Erie Zoo
August
11th- Erie Gives
August
14th-16th-
Celebrate Erie
This year I will try to get information out
via Facebook as well. You can find us at:
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NWPA Project Linus - Like us -and that
automatically will add you to our friend list.
Warmly,
JoAnn Burkhart
NWPA Project Linus – Coordinator
814-864-9389
Nwpaprojectlinus@hotmail.com
