Quilt Healing is a trauma-informed quilting group designed to help participants process and heal from emotional wounds by engaging in the creative process of quilting. The group will provide a safe, supportive space where individuals can explore their trauma through fabric, patterns, and stitching, ultimately creating quilts that symbolize personal growth, resilience, and healing. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their journey together, share their experiences in a verbal and non-verbal ways, and develop new ways to cope with and reframe their memories.

The group will be open to six individuals with sewing and quilting experience who want to engage in a new way of using their quilting practice to explore vulnerable dynamics with other like-minded artists. Both a process group with talking, sharing, and observing, as well as studio time to engage in your craft, the group’s offering is time and connection. Admission is rolling until the group is full. Start date announced when the group is assembled.

Participants are asked to commit to a 6-10 weeks, each series of 6-10 sessions will follow an arch. Starting with discussion of gathering materials and sharing personal history and ending in the last week with a quilt top (or fully sandwiched quilt!) and rapport built with the group. I will share works by other fiber artist or provide weekly prompts for reflection and group building.

Located at Capitol Hill’s Summit Selvedge Sewing Studio, six machines and notions will be available to the quilters. The group will be held throughout 2025 on Tuesdays from 6-9pm. There will be 4 sections to help with pacing and give breaks.

Danielle Rosa (they/she) is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Registered Art Therapist with over 20 years of experience in quiltmaking. Coming from a family of fiber artists, they understand the passionate messages woven into the fabric of our lives, especially in the handmade items passed down through generations.