rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/event/fiber-arts-group-meeting-monday-september-8th-7pm?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-event-area-fiber-arts-group-meeting-monday-september-8th-7pm' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Metro DC DSA https://actionnetwork.org/groups/metro-dc-dsa https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/events/photos/002/846/071/normal/IMG_0548.jpeg Welcome to DC DSA’s Fiber Arts group!This group aims to promote, celebrate, and build community around the fiber arts, including knitting, crocheting, sewing, embroidering, felting, and needle-punching. This group is be a way for members to develop fiber skills, mitigate burnout, and connect organizers who normally work in different realms. We plan to have sessions dedicated to learning skills such as darning and patching, as well as creating agitpop for the chapter and other radical causes, both for visibility and fundraising projects. Overall, we believe having a fiber arts community strengthens our bonds as organizers and community members while curating a low-barrier space where organizers can exchange ideas and be creative. Our September meeting will be our second knitting/crocheting bee, in which we will knit and crochet squares for quilted blankets! We are partnering with the Foundry Church, through whom we will donate blankets to those in need for this coming fall and winter.Our goal for this coming meeting is to knit/crochet squares for 5’ x 6’ blankets. We plan to assemble the blankets at our October meeting, so until then, it’s all about producing as many squares as possible.Items to bring: Yarn: We will be providing yarn, but, if you can, we would appreciate any yarn donations, especially cotton or synthetic yarn (in case of wool allergies) Knitting needles/crochet hooks: we will have some extras available, but please bring your own if you have them! Knit/crocheted squares: if you’d like to get a head’s start and make squares in advance, that’s amazing!!! We are looking for 6”x6” squares, or 1’x1’ if you’d like to make some larger ones. Friends: Please invite a pal (or two) for, as the old adage goes—many hands make light work! Gossip/Chisme: what’s a knitting bee without stories? If you aren’t able to make it, but would like to contribute, please email us at dcfiberartscollective@gmail.com; we are happy to coordinate pick-ups of squares from community members who aren’t able to attend. Monday, Sept 15th, 7pm to 9pm. Location TBA See you soon! https://actionnetwork.org/events/fiber-arts-group-meeting-monday-september-8th-7pm