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 ...

The volunteers of the Lititz/Lancaster chapter of the nonprofit Project Linus, who call themselves Blanketeers, make blankets, quilts and afghans for children in need — those who are seriously ill, ...

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 ...

Thirty years since the founding of the nationwide initiative Project Linus, the organization’s local chapter continues to ...

DECATUR — The Project Linus event at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Monday officially began at 9 a.m., but by that time, the gym was already full of people sewing, cutting, ...

On Feb. 15, University of Maine students celebrated the last day of the annual Winter Carnival by participating in Project Linus’ National Make-A-Blanket Day. Students were provided with materials and ...

Project Linus provides new, homemade blankets to sick or abused children through its chapters across the country. Saturday, volunteers gathered at the main branch of the St. Louis County Library to ...

DECATUR - The local observance of National Project Linus Make a Blanket Day on Saturday at Decatur Memorial Hospital attracted 126 blanketeers, not to mention 30 other volunteers who helped with set ...

Blankets can be a comfort and are even extra special when they are handmade. A group of blanket-makers in New Jersey have been busy. They belong to the Hunterdon/Warren New Jersey chapter of Project ...

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.

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 ...