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• Comfort Caps
Comfort Caps are made to be given free to cancer patients. We meet every odd month except July, usually the second Wednesday, from 10 AM - 1 PM and use mostly knit fabrics which are all donated. Come give us a hand for 15 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour or the whole time. You'll be doing someone a great favor plus have a good time!
Contact: George Jean (406) 254-2548
• Heartwarmers
The group meets in the store to create quilts to be given away.
Contact: Mary K Gartland (406) 245-9466
• Linus Quilts
Billings Sewing and Vac receives the Linus Quilts for Jan to collect.
Contact: Jan (406) 259-3402
Guidelines for Blankets
• Blankets must be new, clean and handmade. Please use only new
materials -- do not recycle fabric, mattress pads, etc. If your blanket
becomes soiled as you work on it, please launder the blanket before
donating it.
• Blankets must be washable and dryable. Cotton, flannel and fleece
fabrics and cotton or cotton and polyester batting are good.
• Choose child-friendly colors and patterns. Children from newborns to
teenagers are included in Project Linus, so blankets appropriate for any
age boy or girl are welcome.
• Do not add emboellishments (buttons, charms, etc.) These could be
harmful if they come off in the hands of a small child. Blankets may be
quilted or tied, but ties should be kept short to prevent them from twisting
around tiny fingers and toes.
• Blankets can vary in size up to throw size (about 48" x 60".) They should
be a minimum of 36" x 42".
• Please work on blankets away from seconhand smoke and family
pets -- many children have allergic reactions to smoke and animal hair
and dander.
Special Needs Blankets
• The neonatal intensive care unit at St. Vincent Hospital needs blankets
size 36" x 42", quilted -- not tied -- and filled with a low loft batting.
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From the Project Linus website: http://www.projectlinus.org/
Project Linus is comprised of hundreds of local chapters and thousands of volunteers across the United States. Each volunteer and local chapter all work together to help us achieve our mission statement, which states:
First, it is our mission to provide love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to children who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need through the gifts of new, handmade blankets and afghans, lovingly created by volunteer “blanketeers.”
Second, it is our mission to provide a rewarding and fun service opportunity for interested individuals and groups in local communities, for the benefit of children.
Together we have distributed over three million blankets to children in need since our inception in 1995.