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Young knitters offer warmth, kindness, one square at a time

A group of Reed Union School District students has knitted a 40-inch-by-40-inch blanket to give to new immigrants arriving in the U.S.

VIA AFSANEH ZOLFAGHARIReed Union School District students Sydney Preuss, Oliver Partida, Audrey Burstein (top, from left), Garrett Zolfaghari-Aschroft and Luna Chong (bottom, from left) teamed up to knit a 40-inch-by-40-inch blanket to gift to newly settled U.S. immigrants. The group created the blanket over the course of six months, from January to the end of the school year in June, for the nonprofit Welcome Blanket.
Francisco Martinez
By FRANCISCO MARTINEZ · 1 min read

A group of Reed Union School District students has knitted a 40-inch-by-40-inch blanket to give to new immigrants arriving in the U.S.

Rising Bel Aire Elementary School fifth graders Luna Chong, Garrett Zolfaghari-Ashcroft, Oliver Partida and Sydney Preuss and incoming Del Mar Middle School sixth grader Audrey Burstein worked on the project at the Belvedere-Tiburon Library from January to June and submitted it to the nonprofit Welcome Blanket.

Welcome Blanket collects homemade blankets, quilts and other materials and then redistributes them to refugees settling in the U.S.

Blankets collected by the project have also been exhibited in online and in-person galleries, and blanket-makers write welcome messages to immigrants.

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A version of this story appeared in the July 16, 2025, print edition of The Ark. See something wrong? Request a correction.
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