Project gives comfort to sick children
A PROJECT inspired by the American ‘Peanuts’ comic strip featuring blanket-loving Linus van Pelt, Snoopy and Charlie Brown, is giving comfort to youngsters on the Children’s Ward and Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) at Furness General Hospital. ‘Project Linus’ brings together selfless women from around Barrow and the South Lakes to make beautiful quilts for children while they are in hospital. The quilts are given to the children and then offered to families to take home when the children have left hospital. In the last two years, the quilters have made 110 quilts for the Childre...