Photo by Michael J. Gallegos / Tribune

Wylene Santistevan (left) and Lorna Anderson share a laugh as they work on their blankets at the Bear Canyon Senior Center. The work these women do - in addition to the work of hundreds of other women in the Albuquerque chapter of Project Linus - benefits young children in need. One of those children is Kaden, who weighed 1 pounds at birth and is spending his early days in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at University of New Mexico Hospital. "It's amazing they (volunteers) take the time and donate the money and material," said Kaden's mom, Meredith Hoyer.