FiberArts Guild of Pittsburgh

FGP Board Meeting
2026-09-21 19:00 (America/New_York)
Monthly meeting of the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh’s Board. This month’s meeting will be on Zoom only.

Informal Meet & Greet at 6:30 pm. Meeting begins at 7:00 pm.

Guild members are always welcome at our monthly board meetings! If you would like to join us, please let us know you are coming by clicking the event link and filling out the attached form.

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Fiber Sunday: Going Beyond the Basket with Traycee Bosle, Fiber Interest Groups, Artist Critique, Show & Share
2026-10-11 14:00 - 17:00 | CYA Stephen Foster Community Center, 286 Main Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15201, United States
2:00-2:30 pm Fiber Interest GroupsJoin us for community, coworking, and conversation – all portable handcrafts and skill levels are welcome.

2:30-3:30 pm Member PresentationGoing Beyond the Basket: Structures, Techniques & Fiber Connections with Traycee Bosle

Traycee Bosle is a Pittsburgh, PA-based basketry fiber artist, marketer, and entrepreneur. Working primarily in reed, her practice explores the intersection of art and craft, exhibition and commerce. Through her studio, Craftisinal Creative Works, she has sold more than 2,000 handwoven baskets, exhibition pieces, ornaments, and kits throughout the United States. She also teaches and demonstrates basketry in her community on YouTube. For Traycee, basket weaving connects generations, carrying the stories and traditions of our ancestors. Through her work and teaching, she seeks to carry that connection forward, honoring the past while bringing basketry into the future and sharing its possibilities with the world.

3:30-5:00 pm Artist Critique and Show & ShareThinking about entering into an upcoming Exhibition? Or maybe you’re looking to sell your work in a gallery, brick & mortar shop, or online? Take your work to new heights by participating in an Artist Critique!

Not quite ready for a critique? Then bring your latest work or in-progress project to share with fellow members. Talk about your process and celebrate your progress!

FGP Table at CLP Quilt Documentation Day
2026-10-24 10:00 - 16:00 | Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Main Branch, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213
At Carnegie Library’s Quilt Documentation Day, local guilds will be having information tables. Our table will showcase a variety of artwork by our members. Please let Linda Brown know if you are willing to share your work or to help on the day.

Stop by to meet members of other area guilds and to document your family quilts. The event is free and open to the public.

More information about the Quilt Documentation Day:https://www.carnegielibrary.org/event/quilt-documentation-day/

Craft & Connect
2026-10-27 19:00 - 21:00
THIS IS A ZOOM EVENT

Join FGP President Kathie Hollingshead for Craft & Connect on select Tuesday evenings. Everyone is welcome to bring your latest work in progress and join us for a relaxing conversation and chance to chat with friends. Let’s get together, work, chat, see where it goes. We hope to see you there!

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Beaded & Stitched Mandala Workshop with Julie Booth (Zoom)
2026-11-07 10:00 - 13:00
Workshop limited to 20 participants. Registration deadline: October 25, 2026

Participants will create a small “meditative” mandala from beads, sequins, ribbons, cheeseclothand tulle. Julie will show students how to build a layered collage, apply beads and sequins,attach a shell or sea glass with a thread net, ruch ribbons and couch yarns. She will alsodemonstrate how to add a backing and stitched edging to the finished piece. Julie enjoys givingthese beautiful beaded and stitched mandalas as gifts for healing or protection.

$45 workshop fee includes a required kit containing the following materials:

(1) 5” square cotton fabric

(1) 5” square wool blend felt for a stabilizer

(1) 7” square cotton backing fabric

Tulle to cover your fabric base

Small assortment of painted cheesecloth scraps

(1) shell or piece of sea glass

Assortment of size 6 and 8 seed beads and sequins

Small assortment of larger focal or unusual beads

Small assortment of ribbon and yarn

(2) balls of pearl cotton thread (size 8) to complement your kit colors

Needle pack (includes (2) crewel embroidery (#3, #5), (1) sharp (#5), (2) chenille (# 24, #22)

Julie will be creating kits in an assortment of colors. When ordering your kit, please provide twocolor options that you’d be willing to work with.

Students should bring the following items to class:

Fabric scissors

Embroidery (small, sharp) scissors

Pins (glass head ones are fine)

Bottle cap: 2.5”-3” diameter. You’ll trace this to create your mandala circle.

Permanent marker (fine point) for tracing around the bottle cap.

Optional: 6”-12” Ruler (I prefer a clear gridded one, but any type will do)

Optional: Threads in additional colors (I suggest pearl cotton in sizes 8 or 12)

Optional: Task light

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About Julie B. Booth

I’m an artist, an author but most of all, I’m a teacher who loves to inspire my students to stretch. My greatest joy is watching students get excited, jump in fully and produce works that speak to them and others.

I personally enjoy hours in the studio playing with fabric and threads, experimenting with basic hand stitches and observing the “secrets” they reveal through play.

In 2013-2014, I wrote Fabric Printing at Home (Quarry Books 2014), a book that focuses on using household materials to create print blocks, stencils, and fabric resists.

I’ve been a featured artist in three Quilting Arts TV series and have written several articles for Quilting Arts magazine on hand stitching and surface design projects.

In 2020, I moved my teaching online. I teach workshops and classes in hand stitching as an expressive art medium as well as how to create beautiful, hand stitched art objects.

I’ve had and continue to have the pleasure of teaching experimental hand stitching projects and techniques for organizations, guilds and conferences including TextileArtist.org’s Stitch Club (2020, 2022, and 2027); Quilt and Surface Design Symposium (2024); Artistic Artifacts’ Creative Minds Summit (2025 and 2026); Art Quilt Midwest (2025).

Stash Bash Potluck
2027-04-18 11:00 - 14:00
Get excited FGP Members! We’re bringing back a beloved event this spring—the Stash Bash Potluck—and we’re currently looking for volunteers to help us plan the experience.

Volunteer opportunities may include:

// Venue accommodations and accessibility.

// Donations and silent auction items.

// Event registration and new member acquisition.

// Hospitality and catering services.

If interested, please complete our Stash Bash Potluck Volunteer Form

Same Cloth: A Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh Juried Member Exhibition
2027-07-15 00:00 - 2027-10-30 23:59
Same Cloth: a Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh Juried Member Exhibition

July 15-September 4, 2027Brew House Arts711 S 21st St, Pgh, PA 15203

July 15-October 30, 2027Contemporary Craft5645 Butler St, Pgh, PA 15201

Exhibition Chairs: Staci Offutt, Laura Tabakman, Nancy Langer

Submission Deadline: May 3, 2027

Contact: exhibitionsfgp@gmail.com

“Cut from the same cloth” is a phrase that describes people who share common qualities, values, orexperiences. Rooted in tailoring tradition, it refers to garments made from the same bolt of fabric, eachdistinct in form yet united by a common material. Over time, the expression has become a metaphor for the invisible threads that connect us: our histories, communities, beliefs, and shared humanity.

The Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh invites artists to consider these connections through the language of fiber. As a community dedicated to advancing fiber art in all its forms, we recognize that while artists work with diverse materials, techniques, and perspectives, they are united by a commitment to creative exploration, technical excellence, and innovation.

Across two gallery spaces, selected works will engage in a visual conversation, revealing relationshipsbetween process, material, and meaning. Together, they will explore themes of identity, community,belonging, resilience, and transformation, demonstrating the extraordinary breadth of contemporary fiberart.

We invite Fiberarts Guild members to contribute original work that expands this dialogue, offering personal interpretations of connection, shared experience, and collective making. Whether literal or conceptual, intimate or monumental, each work becomes part of a larger tapestry that celebrates both the threads that unite us and the unique perspectives each artist brings to the whole.

Juror

Margaret Dugger is an artist currently based in Pittsburgh, PA. They studied at Haywood Community College in Clyde, North Carolina, and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Trained in traditional handweaving, Margaret uses historic craft skills to make sense of our contemporary lives. She is excited and inspired by what happens when you combine new materials and ways of thinking with old processes! Margaret has been thankful to learn from a wide variety of teachers, who have guided her on this path.

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