GLASGOW – A room in the Mary Wood Weldon Memorial Library was packed Tuesday with people in the final stages of preparing blankets for the needy.

For roughly two hours, one large room in the library was difficult to navigate as nearly 30 people, mostly children, gathered around colorful blankets spread across tables or laid out on the floor, altering them for Project Linus, an organization that provides blankets for people in need.

Before the crafting began, Barbara Brodt, the library’s outreach coordinator, explained Project Linus.

“You all know Snoopy and Charlie Brown, right?” she asked the kids, who said they did.

“Do you know Linus?” she asked. Again, the answer was yes.

“And what does he always have with him? A blanket.”

Brodt said this weekend, she’ll take the finished blankets to a Project Linus representative in Louisville.

“Project Linus is a nationwide organization, and they provide blankets to people in need,” she said. “So children in hospitals or in homeless shelters will get these blankets.”

The blankets, which JOANN Fabric and Craft Store in Glasgow provided at a discount, were composed of one layer of fleece. Brodt said they aren’t particularly warm but are intended more to provide comfort to the people who get them.

“These provide comfort (to) a lot of people who don’t need the extra warmth,” she said. “They get other blankets for warmth. This is just something they can have with them and carry them around and give comfort.”

After Brodt explained Project Linus, she walked everyone through the process of finishing the blankets, which involved cutting 4-inch squares off the corners of the blankets and cutting each edge of the blanket into short tassels that would then be knotted.

In minutes, a range of colorful blankets were spread out on every table available and several places on the floor. Children traced lines with rulers and markers on the blankets that they’d be cutting along in moments.

Denise Combs, a teacher at Savoyard Christian Academy in Metcalfe County, sat at a table amid six students she brought to the library to participate in Project Linus.

“They love to do crafts and then the fact that this is going to so many needy people, we just thought it would be a really nice way to contribute to others in need,” she said as the students cut and tied tassels.

Because of the activity’s simplicity, Combs said she might be interested in starting a similar project to provide blankets to residents of a local nursing home.

“I feel like this is a wonderful way to give people some security and some comfort when they’re hurting,” she said.

On the other side of the room, Jennifer Johnson laid out a blanket covered with colorful images of soccer balls, where she and her daughter Jayna Johnson, 11, and nephew Nicholas Pace, 9, were tracing short lines along the edges of blankets.

Jennifer Johnson said she took her daughter and her son to the library’s Project Linus gathering last year and was eager to return.

“They really had a good time,” she said of last year’s event. “They realized who the blankets were going to and then they realized that some people are less fortunate than they are so it really helped them see that it was really going to help people.”

Jennifer Johnson said the children enjoyed the work they did with Project Linus, which made her want to return for this year’s event.

“They liked it and they liked helping people. We actually thought about doing it at our church, but we just never got it organized.”

Brodt said this is the third year she’s had a Project Linus event.

Brodt found out about Project Linus a few years ago and was interested in starting a Project Linus event at the library because it would provide the community with an easy way to help the less fortunate, she said.

“I search the internet for programming ideas and this popped up on one of my searches a couple of years ago and I checked into it and I thought ‘Wow, that’s a worthwhile cause and it requires no sewing and I think my kids could handle it,’ ” she said.

The turnout of roughly 30 people, many of them children or in the early stages of adolescence, was fairly normal, Brodt said.

“We have a huge turnout as you can see and I think the main reason is because it is a service project and they know that these blankets are going to be going for a good cause,” she said.

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