by Leslie Van Patter | Mar 14, 2022 | News
Cristina De Miranda’s version of Paeon Now that CQA/ACC’s 2022 Mystery Quilt has been revealed, we can share these photos of designer Cristina De Miranda’s version of Paeon. Beautiful! Cristina recently posted images on Instagram (@shipsandviolins) with the following...
by Leslie Van Patter | Feb 1, 2022 | News
Make a Log Cabin block or quilt In 2020, CQA/ACC set an objective to highlight and represent a more diverse group of quilters and fabric artists, because we recognized the need to better reflect the population of Canada. As a national organization, CQA/ACC aims to...
by Leslie Van Patter | Jan 31, 2022 | News
New Glasgow, Nova Scotia quilt maker Myla Borden sews together the pieces of her peoples’ past. Myla Borden prefers that people cozy up under one of her quilts to having it hang on a wall. Their colours and stories are meant to spread warmth, be used and loved,...
by Leslie Van Patter | Jan 31, 2022 | News
Meet the quilters from North Buxton, ON African Canadian quilting emerged in the decades preceding Confederation. Enslaved Black women were used for spinning, weaving, sewing and quilting on American plantations. When the first generation of fugitive slave women...
by Leslie Van Patter | Jan 31, 2022 | News
A Black settlement founded in 1849 by former slaves, Buxton, ON, at its peak was home to 1,200 fugitives who had escaped slavery in the United States and found freedom in Canada. Their skilled quilters often created fundraising quilts, usually to help members of the...
