February Newsletter

February, 2016

Hello Blanketeers,    

This information was taken from our National web site regarding the beginning of National Make a Blanket Day. I have been asked of its origin many times, so here it is:

HOW DID IT BEGIN?

National Make a Blanket Day began in 1999 after the terrible events that took place at Columbine High School. We found that suddenly we were in need of a very large number of blankets, and quickly. Our chapters came to the rescue, holding “blanket bees” all over the country and then sending those blankets to our local chapters in Denver. It was a huge success, and we learned that we had a national network of people who could and would help. It was decided that we would hold an annual Make A Blanket Day where each chapter could host activities in their area to promote Project Linus and to increase our inventory of warm cuddly blankets. Generally, we can attribute the collection of 75,000 to 100,000 blankets to National Make a Blanket Day! 

NWPA National Make a Blanket Day Schedule is as follows:

                                                                      

Kelly’s Sewing Corner- 3330 W.26^th Street (Village West)                         10:00-3:00

Millcreek Sewing – 6044 Peach Street                                                           1:00-4:00

Super Stitch -55 West Main Street- North East                                            10:00-3:00

Fox’s Sew & Vac Sales and Service Downtown Mall – Meadville PA        10:00-3:00

St. Michael’s Church- Greenville, PA                                                              11:00- 3:00

Zanadu Fabric, Yarn & Crafts -105 N. Fraley Street, Kane  PA (814) 561-1047 – 10:00-4:00

                                                                                                                           Saturday April 16th

In the next month or so I will be in need of our wonderful blanketeers to again help with the cutting, tracing of the muslin as we prepare for our upcoming summer events. Several bolts of muslin need to be prepared for those events. As I have the muslin ready, I will let you ladies know.

Monthly meetings:

February 3^rd-        Millcreek Sewing Center               6044 Peach Street      1:00pm- 4:00pm ( regular meeting )

February 8th -      Yaple’s Vacuum & Sewing               801 W. 26^th Street       9:00am-11:00am,

Odds and Ends:

Spring “ Sew In Day” at the Hampton Inn date is pending at this time. Possible dates end of April or early May.

Reminders: Please leave your contact information as you drop of your blankets, so that we can send out a note of appreciation.

Looking Ahead:

February 20^th            -National Make a Blanket Day-

April 9th         –           Appreciation Day- Yaple’s Vacuum & Sewing 10:00-2:00

July 27^th-                     Senior Day at the Erie Zoo

August 9^th-                  Erie Gives

August 19^th-21^st-       Celebrate Erie

 Please follow us on Facebook as well, for up to date and current events. You can find us at:

·       NWPAProjectLinus-    Like us -and that automatically will add you to our friend list.

·       www.nwpaprojectlinus.blogspot.com- is our web page

Warmly,

JoAnn Burkhart

NWPA Project Linus Coordinator

1-814-864-9389

nwpaprojectlinus@hotmail.com

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National Make Blanket Day is coming

Saturday February 20th. 

Kelly's Sewing Corner
Millcreek Sewing
Super Stitch
Fox's Sewing
St. Michael's ( Greenville)

More info to follow soon !!!!!

A day to come together and make blankets at some of our locations or drop off completed blankets.
A day to make a difference for a child in need in our Communities. Especially during these cold winter months
A day for our Blanketeers to meet and spend time together exchanging ideas.
A blanket that is quilted, knitted, crocheted, or fleece tied, is like a warm hug to a child that is going through a trying time.

Letter to the Editor - Erie Times News

Letter to the Editor- Erie Times News

Thanks to volunteers and supporters of NWPA Project Linus:

The NWPA Chapter of Project Linus would like to thank our many volunteers (blanketeers!) and supporters for all of their time and efforts throughout 2015. We gave out over 3,000 blankets in 2015, and more than 35,000 in the last 15 years.

Our mission is to provide the comfort of a new handmade blanket to children in traumatic situations, due to illness, emergency situations, or other challenging events. Our blankets are distributed locally to Millcreek Community Hospital, St. Vincent Health Center, UPMC Hamot Hospital. Camp Corral ( @ Camp Fitch), Office of Children and Youth Services, Safenet, Crime Victim Center and many other agencies that provide a much needed service to children in need.

Our volunteers donate countless hours creating beautiful quilts, afghans and fleece blankets so that kids can have a warm hug. We would also like to thank Kohl’s for grants that support our mission, allowing us to purchase supplies. A huge Thanks also goes out to many local Quilt Shoppe’s ( Yaple’s Sewing & Vacuum, Kelly’s Sewing Corner, Millcreek Sewing, Secret Squirrel, Super Stitch, Fox’s Sew & Vac, The Gallery of Fabric and Zanadu Fabric Yarn and Craft. ) that open their doors for monthly meetings and drop off locations.

For more information about Project Linus, see- www.projectlinus.org or www.nwpaprojectlinus.blogspot.com, like us on Facebook (NWPA Project Linus), or contact us at nwpaprojectlinus@hotmail.com .

Thank you to all in the Tri-State area who support us.

JoAnn Burkhart, CHAPTER COORDINATOR, erie,pa