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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Project Linus, a volunteer-run nonprofit that provides handmade security blankets to children in crisis, celebrates its 30th ...

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 ...

Linus blankets are big hugs for children who need a little extra comfort, says Katy resident Sally Burns, the Houston Project Linus coordinator. "We are touching the lives of so many children in the ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (FOX44) — Project Linus, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing handmade blankets and quilts to children facing serious illness, trauma or other needs, continues its ...

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, ...

FORSYTH - Linda Hutton doesn't knit blankets for gifts anymore. All her creations now go to Project Linus. Hutton was working on blanket No. 20 Saturday morning during the Project Linus National Make ...

A VOLUNTEER group which makes and donates quilts to children’s hospices and women’s refuges held an exhibition to raise money for the work it does. Margaret Metcalfe is the Oxfordshire co-ordinator ...

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, ...