Blanket Babes and Casita Linda alliance support children in SMA

The alliance Blanket Babes and Casita Linda seek to give children of limited resources shelter with hand-woven blankets

Published May 29, 2023

In the Starbuck’s courtyard, a group of women gather to weave. Each one makes colored squares that will then be sewn together to form blankets that will be given to children in poverty; The participants are mostly Expats, but they are looking for more and more people to join them.

They use the technique of crochet or hook weaving to weave work with thread or wool that uses a crochet needle made of metal, plastic or wood. This technique allows very durable confections for practically any garment.

The group was named Blanket Babes and its objective is to weave blankets for low-income families living in areas far from the urban sprawl. Today they are allied with the Casita Linda and it is to this one who gives the finished blankets to the families.

Elizabeth Adlung is one of the members of the group. She shared that it is made up of people who come and go, coming from Canada, from the United States.

She said they get together to weave pictures and then sew them to make a blanket that will be used by children. Casita Linda is in charge of building them a cement house and to celebrate that they have a new house, they deliver new blankets.

They have been making maybe 100 blankets a year for more than 7 years. It’s always new people, he said; She even shared that people who never knitted are teaching themselves to knit. They meet once a week, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., on the patio of Starbucks, across from the San Francisco Inn. The group accepts donations to purchase yarn or donations of yarn in kind. The weavers avoid the white color and very light colors, because they ensure that the white tends to turn gray after some washing. So the resulting blankets are of a diversity of very striking colors.

But not only do they weave blankets, they also make ponchos specifically to be used by children, being the most vulnerable to low temperatures. Today there are about 15 people in the group; Every Thursday varies the number of people who come to knit in company. The funny thing is that it is made up only of foreign women, but the group is open to more people joining, of any nationality, there is even the possibility that men also approach.

Each participant must carry their own thread and hooks. If they don’t know how to knit, they are taught. The only condition is that the thread is not very light in color.

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