by Leslie Van Patter | Jan 31, 2022 | News
How Canadian quilters can get involved Founded in 2017 by sewing and quilting author and pattern designer Sara Trail, the Social Justice Sewing Academy (SJSA) is a US-based not-for-profit youth education program that bridges artistic expression with activism to...
by Leslie Van Patter | Jan 31, 2022 | News
I Love First Peoples supplies sewing labs in northern schools. Sew & Sew is a program run by I Love First Peoples, a charitable organization focused on reconciliation that serves 90 northern communities. Schools in the far north are supplied with equipment and...
by Leslie Van Patter | Jan 25, 2022 | News
Cindy Connell talks with the founder of Quilts for Survivors Late last spring, as the remains of children were being uncovered in the burial plots on the grounds of former residential schools, Vanessa Génier of Timmins, ON, started a new Facebook group. The goal was...
by Leslie Van Patter | Jan 1, 2022 | News
Congratulations to our seventh and last group of Fat Quarter Lottery winners: Valerie H. (MB), Joanne A. (ON), Colleen F. (BC), Patricia O’M. (BC), and Beverly R. (SK). Each will receive a lovely bundle of nine ruby red fat quarters to add to their stash! The lottery...
by Leslie Van Patter | Dec 1, 2021 | News
The fit of your mask does matter. ‘Fit for purpose,’ according to the MacMillan Dictionary, is something that is good enough to do the job it was designed to do. There were four cloth masks in the package I put in the mail, not just the two requested. They were going...
