“There’s an amount of love in that handmade blanket that did not come from a store,” an advocate said.
, which solicits handmade blankets for distribution throughout the country. Trombley, who picked up quilting as an adult, planned to participate in the project anyway but was happy that she had “dragged the kids into it.”
“The kids that did the project are the next generation of voters,” Trombley said. “By thinking about this as children, they will realize that these are humans who need sympathy just as much as everyone else.” Pat LaMarche, an advocate for the homeless from Pennsylvania, said she created the project last year after she met a 35-year-old woman on permanent disability. The woman said she would be “the happiest person alive if they just let me crochet all day.”LaMarche seized on the idea, putting out a call on social media for handmade blankets for the homeless. She ended up with more than 200 from a few states. This year, she put out the call again and decided to bring the blankets to D.C.
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