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The Homeless Remembrance Blanket Project, in its second year in the US, is uniting quilters for a cause. The project brings hundreds of blankets to be displayed on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., before being returned to their states of origin to be distributed amid the holidays. 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. Last year she received over 200 blankets; this year her plan was to display at the US Capitol where legislators – who have the power to fight homelessness – would see them. The effort is about more than keeping people warm, LaMarche said. “There’s an amount of love in that handmade blanket that did not come from a store,” she said, “that whole idea that somebody made you a handmade blanket just because you matter.”
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