At H+H Americas and the Fiber and Fabric Craft Festival, we heard the same thing again and again: people are looking for exactly this kind of project. They want to gather locally, make things together, and find ways to welcome newcomers in their own communities.

A generous donor is matching gifts up to $10,000 through May 31. Every dollar you give goes twice as far.

If we meet the match, we can build the infrastructure for local organizing: toolkits, materials, and support so communities can host this work where they live.

Welcome Blanket is a national craft project and nonprofit organization that transforms conversations around immigration into a tangible expression of care, creativity, connection, and shared humanity. By combining storytelling with handmade blankets, the project creates both symbolic and literal warmth to welcome new immigrants into U.S. communities.

Across the country, participants handcraft blankets and write welcome notes, sharing family stories of immigration, migration, and relocation. Makers range in age from 4 to 104, representing diverse backgrounds, identities, levels of craft experience, and histories. They follow simple guidelines: a 40" × 40" blanket crafted in any medium that is easy to care for, and hard to give away — because it's made with love.

Welcome Blankets are displayed collectively at museums, airports, libraries, and cultural institutions before being gifted directly to newly arriving refugees and immigrants through 30+ partner refugee organizations. Since 2017, over 8,000 blankets have been created and gifted.

With our hearts, hands, and histories, we are crafting a new American tradition of welcome.

Welcome Blanket is a 501(c)(3) public charity. EIN 82-3710231. All donations are tax deductible.

Your donation to Welcome Blanket is doubled through May 31

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