It's our favorite time of the year! Inman Eats AND Crafts! Come experience all the joys of Inman Square on Sunday, May 21, 2023 - live music, great food, artists and craftspeople, and the small businesses that make our neighborhood special. AND come and shop our Annual Sidewalk Sale - bringing back the super sale by-the-yard fabrics as well as our Fill-A-Bag with discontinued yarn, fabrics, patterns, and more. We will also have a rack of store samples which are made by us but the fabric is no longer available or the pattern is discontinued. Like in past years, you...

With the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency and the drop in the number of hospital admissions (as of publishing this blog the Boston Metro Area is averaging 3.2 hospital admissions per 100K according to the site: Covid ActNow), gather here is lifting our mask requirement for in-store shopping beginning May 12, 2023. We will continue to require workshop participants to mask due to the long period of time attendees spend together in close-ish quarters. We believe that craft is for everyone and recognize that dropping the mask requirement may make shopping a dangerous activity for some community members....

You can't open a newspaper or turn on the news without learning about another effort to restrict abortion access in the US. And while bans failed in Nebraska and South Carolina the last week of April, access to mifepristone is still threatened in the courts. The National Network of Abortion Funds builds power with members to remove financial and logistical barriers to abortion access by centering people who have abortions and organizing at the intersections of racial, economic, and reproductive justice. “TOGETHER, we are going to keep building our political power, keep disrupting, keep funding abortions, and keep shutting shit...

Since 2018, the Cambridge Modern Quilt Guild has raffled off a quilt to benefit youth interested in attending gather here's fiber camps. We are pleased to announce that this partnership continues and like previous years, we will match up to $1,500 in raffle ticket sales to help young folks in the community learn to sew, quilt, and more this summer. We are so freakin' excited to share this opportunity with all of you to win a beautiful handmade quilt and to help coordinate applications. The CMQG will be at the 6th Annual Inman Eats AND Crafts event on Sunday, May...

Our March 1, 2023 newsletter brought in some great suggestions for this year's We Care Wednesday recipients. Many thanks to Joy, a gather here workshop participant, for reaching out to tell us about Lakota YouthStay, an enriched homestay program with Native youth from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and Eastern Massachusetts host families engaging in a variety of shared activities of interest over the course of 8 days in July. The mission of Lakota YouthStay is to build authentic, mutually rewarding and sustainable friendships between Native and non-Native people with the goal of inspiring hope and creating cultural...