DROP-OFF LOCATION IN BATH

For those of you in the Bath/Brunswick area.  You can now deliver your blankets to the Mariner's Quilt Shop on 190 Front Street in Bath.  

We now deliver blankets to Mid-Coast Hospital and Brunswick Human Services.  If you know of an agency that works with children in crisis that could benefit from our program, please send me their information 

Also, please feel free to contact Carole Heaphy at 833-7733 in Harpswell.  She's handling deliveries in that area and needs your support.

My information is 284-5606 or mprovost@maine.rr.com.

Thanks for being a volunteer. 

"Notes from Spring Harbor" Please take the time to read.

Please take the time to read these heartfelt notes from children at Spring Harbor.  The Spring Harbor facility is our second largest recipient site next to Maine Medical Center.  The children are allowed to choose a fleece blanket for their own.  In fact, the facility includes the blanket in their program. 


Thank you for giving me the blanket!  I really appreciate all the work you put in to make all those!  Thanks again Project Linus!              Love, E


Dear Project Linus.  Thank you for the blankets.  It ment a lot to me that someone would care enough to make them!  You are awesome!  Keep up the good work!       M


I just wanted to say thank you for the blanket, Project Linus!  It was really thoughtful and I appreciate it a lot.        Z


Thank you Project Linus for the blankets they keep me warm at night


Dear Project Linus, Thank you for the blanket.  The blanket means a lot to me.  Once again thank you.       Sincerely K


I just wanted to say than you for putting your time and effort into making me and others these wonderful and amazing blankets.  My blanket is very comforting and I love the cool way you put it together.  And how you tie the blankets on the end.  I hope all of the other kids enjoy their blankets to.                  Thanks, E


For the warm and fluffy blankets.  They are so cuddly and did I mention warm!?  I love mine and will cherrish it forever for the hard work that went into it     With (heart) S


I'd like to thank you for thinking of the kids like me at Spring Harbor and making us blankets.  It was very thoughtful of you to spend the time and effort to make them.  I love my new blanket.  I sleep with it every night.     Thank you so much!  A


Thanks Project Linus.  I really appreciate those blankets, their so comfy.  It means a lot really.  It feels great to have someone who cares and goes to such lengths to provide awesome blankets.  Keep up the great work!       Love R


To the person who made my blanket, thank you so much for your hard work making the blanket.  I really like it.               From B


Thank you!  Thank you Project Linus for the great blankets!!  They're very cozy & warm.  A very great thig to cuddle with.  Thaks for thinking of us.      L


Thank chu for da blankets!  Thank you for your kindness and generosity.  Da blankets are so warm and fluffy I could die!  Naw, just kidding!  They are warm and fluffy thought.    So as thanks I will draw the most delicious cake ever.       B


Thank you for the blanket.  The message on it was heart warming  It's nice to know that people I don't even know care.  I smiled and re-read the note on the blanket at least 5 times in the past 2 minutes.  Whenever I'm upset and feeling like the world walks out on me I'll look back at this and be thankful someone does care.  We need more people like you lady's in this world.  I'm bitter and even your message got through to me.  I will forever cherish this blanket and it will forever be with me.  I can't thank you enough for the smiles you have brought me, and will continue to everytime I read the note or look at the blanket.  Thanks again for lighting up my day.  You are great.  K 



The message that this young person is talking about is the poem that we attach to the blankets. 

"Thank you from Trauma Intervention Program"

I wanted to share with you some of the stories shared by TIP volunteers about the blankets that they have gifted folks being assisted during a TIP attended crisis event.

  

Please let the Linus volunteers know how very grateful we are for the amazing work they do to drape love and comfort around the shoulders of those who are facing what could be the worst moment of their lives.

 

The look in the eyes of those who have just been given a blanket is truly heart warming.

 

A woman and her children experienced a very traumatic event and TIP was called in to assist in a safety plan for this woman’s children. As the volunteer was gathering up a few things they would take from their home she saw them shivering, it was warm outside yet these children were in shock and needed to feel safe and comforted. The volunteer had two Linus blankets in her bag and wrapped them up “two by two” with the blankets in the back seat of their mom’s car before they drove off.

The TIP volunteer was called to be with a young child who was waiting for his mom and sibling as they were in surgery. She gave the child a blanket; the child curled up with immediately. When the young child’s aunt and uncle arrived they expressed their gratitude and commented on the visible comfort it was providing.

A house fire resulted in one family loosing all of their belongings, but thankfully all got out safely. The weather was damp and chilly at that time and the three volunteers on the scene all had blankets (some adult size and child size) that they were able to give mothers of an evacuated near by building holding children that were shivering. As the parents stood watching their home in flames, one volunteer stood by them with an umbrella after she had placed a blanket around their shoulders to provide them a sense of safety, comfort and warmth. 

"Thank you notes from Moms"

My daughter, Charlotte was born prematurely in February.  She received a Project Linus blanket in the NICU, and it meant so much to us that a stranger would make such a beautiful blanket for her.  It somehow gave me the hope that she was going to be okay (which she is, a happy, healthy, almost-four-month-old girl!)       I'm going to be putting together a group to make blankets for Project Linus.  Thanks again. 

Hello,

 I wanted to express our thanks for the beautiful quilt my son received while he was in the hospital.  He spent 3 nights at SMMC and my son  was very happy to have the quilt. He showed it to all his visitors and  has used it every night since we have been home. He really appreciated the beautiful quilt.

 Thank you so very much for your generous donation.

Karen, Grant's mom