Project Linus Cumberland & York County, ME Chapter

08/16/2026

Thank you to all the volunteers who came on Thursday and helped to process over 200 blankets for the kids in our community.

08/09/2026

Welcome and thank you to our new blanket drop-off locations:

-Olde School Fiber & Craft, 18 South St., Gorham
-Rosemary's Gift & Yarn Shop, 39m Roosevelt Tril, Windham
-Good Karma Yarn & Soap, 154 Main St., Bridgeton
-Oxford Mill End Store, 971 Main St., Oxford

Send a message to learn more

06/30/2026

A giant thank you to the family of Madeline Roberts who recently passed away after 95 years.

We are grateful to her family for sending us 40 completed quilt tops! She had a great sense of color and patterns.

If any of our volunteers want to help with backing and quilting some of these blankets, let me know! In many cases she has also provided backing fabric.

06/26/2026

Thank you to all the volunteers that came to the S**o Grange on Thursday and helped to collect, label and sort 403 blankets!

Our blanket makers and blanket helpers are so appreciated! This quarter (April 1-June 30) we delivered 763 blankets to kids here in our Southern Maine Community.

Organizations supported this quarter included Camp Sunshine, Barbara Bush Childrens Hospital, St Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston, The New Beginnings Teen Shelter in Lewiston, and Spring Harbor Hospital.

Thank you for all that you do!

06/19/2026

Reminder: Blanket Day at the S**o Grange Thursday June 25 from 12-3.

See attached event for details. Hope to see you there.

06/17/2026

Welcome and Thank you to our newest Drop off location:

Paisley Pines Quilt Shop
206 New Settlement Road, Hiram, Maine

05/15/2026

Thank you to all the volunteers who joined today in S**o.

Together we sorted, labeled and bagged 310 blankets and I have just a few bags we didn’t get through.

Most of these will likely deliver to the Rare Disease Programs in June at Camp Sunshine. As many of you know, we typically provide approximately 1,000 blankets a year to the kids attending Camp Sunshine. They have camps all year long but the highest volume is in the next few months.

I was so busy working that I didn’t take nearly enough photos of the volunteers or the blankets. We had so many quilts, afghans and fleece blankets. THANK YOU!!

05/14/2026

Reminder. Blanket Day at the S**o Grange on Friday 12-3. Details attached.

05/01/2026

I thought I would share a few photos of a fleece blanket type that I have been making with the cutoff edges left from backing quilts.

(I will take pictures at all the steps next time and update this post. )

I save pieces that are 6” or wider. And zigzag them together. Takes me 30-45 minutes to make these and then another 30 minutes to put a fleece back on it.

Simple instructions:

1) Make sure your front side has straight edges

2) overlap the pieces by about an inch (measuring isn’t necessary). I pin the larger pieces about every 6-12 inches as fleece is so stretchy.

3) zigzag stitch along the edge of the front piece. (If your machine lets you adjust stitch size I lengthen the stitch size quite a lot. )

4) trim up the outer edges to square.

5) repeat steps 1-4 adding more fleece until the blanket is between 45 - 60 inches. Make sure you keep the overlap on the back side.

6) use a piece of fleece to back this blanket. Put right sides together for the top and the backing

7) sew around the outside leaving an opening to flip. ( I use a wide seam and a longer stitch length than I do with cotton blankets.

8 ) turn the blanket right side out.

9) top stitch (1/4 to 1/2 inch in from the edge) around the blanket making sure to have a good seam at the place where you flipped your blanket right side out.

04/13/2026

We had a very productive blanket day on Sunday. The volunteers dropped off and helped label and bag over 250 blankets.

Dawn achieved a personal record for labels sewn😂.

And so much fabric, fleece and yarn was distributed for your next Project Linus Blankets.

Thank you to every volunteer!

Remember you can always drop off blankets at any of our dropoff locations (in photos below).

Also we are so happy to receive all types & sizes of new, handcrafted quilts, knitted and crocheted blankets and fleece.

We serve kids from infant to age 18, so all sizes, patterns & colors are needed.

Thanks!

Pam