Fiber Group Monthly Meeting
Falmouth Art Center
Saturday October 17, 2026
10am – 12pm
The Fiber Group is taking on several projects to share our skills and creativity with the community.
Join us at our October meeting to work on our Welcome Blanket (welcomeblanket.org) projects. Welcome Blanket invites makers to create 40” x 40” blankets for refugees and immigrants, offering a warm welcome to their new community. Bring finished pieces and works in progress to share techniques, exchange ideas, and inspire one another. Knit, crochet, felt, quilt, weave, sew—or combine techniques—to create a welcoming blanket. Bring materials, a sketch, or simply an idea, and we’ll work together.
Hands on instruction will be provided. Do you need assistance designing a quilt? Are you working on a knit or crochet blanket and could use input? Are you trying to embellish the blanket and could use ideas to personalize your design? Additional materials will be on hand including yarn, fabric, embroidery materials and other embellishments.
The blankets will be featured in a Falmouth Art Center exhibit in April 2027. Each will include the maker’s own immigrant story, whether from 1492 or 2027, and will ultimately be gifted to a local immigrant and refugee support organization.
One Year One Outfit, a project of the Rustbelt FiberShed (rustbeltfibershed.com), challenges makers to design and create garments using locally produced materials such as wool, alpaca, plant fibers, and even shell buttons. A cohort from FAC is creating several garments for the project, with a traveling exhibit planned for next spring. I am currently sketching out the next steps to write up a short proposal to travel these garments.
Brilliant Billion of Stars (@brilliantbillionofstars on Instagram) is a community quilt project in which makers create 5” x 5” squares featuring brightly colored stars, preferably on a blue background. The squares will be assembled into a huge quilt for national exhibition. The Fiber Group plans to hold a winter working session with the project’s creator, Marissa Antosh, so stay tuned for details. There is currently no deadline—keep making those stars!
Join the Falmouth Art Center Fiber Group on Facebook! This is where you can share your projects.
