Autumn 2025

See what inspired Wanda Lumsden's heart-rending Best in Show wall hanging entitled After the Fires. Its first panel also stars as our cover photo (above).

Take a tour of the other awe-inspiring quilts and their summaries from the top three of each category at the National Juried Show.

Sue Sherman recovers after spilling dye, then tea, on a quilt that went on to win top honours in the Innovation category at Quilt Canada.

Other great features:

• Meet the winners of the TrendTex and JN Harper Youth Challenges, including a 12-year-old dynamo.
• Free pattern of the Clearwater Quilt by Erin Kroeker of The Blanket Statement.
• How the True Colours Quilt Along made people feel welcome
• Quilters express their Canadian pride
• Get an update of the Soaring Circle’s SewCase program for Indigenous students.
• Quilts made from scraps from Eaton’s and Simpsons (later Sears) department stores.
• Read about a birth mother’s mother for the baby she never met – until she gave him a quilt decades later.

Plus, tips from Electric Quilt 8®.