by Leslie Van Patter | Nov 3, 2021 | News
Facebook Group makes quilts for residential school survivors – and you can help! Update: There is no longer a deadline for blocks, tops, and quilts. Quilts for Survivors will be assembling quilts as long as quilters make them and Survivors need them. Quilters from all...
by Leslie Van Patter | Nov 2, 2021 | News
Janome is sponsoring up to 33 machines for the JN Jarper Youth Challenge 2022. Here’s a perfect opportunity to mentor a young quilter aged 5-19, and they could win a great prize! First prize in the JN Harper Youth Challenge 2022 is a Janome Horizon Memory Craft 8200...
by Leslie Van Patter | Oct 12, 2021 | News
Congratulations to our fifth group of Fat Quarter Lottery winners: Katy F. (BC), Mary W. (ON), Marnie McD. (ON), and Sharon S. (ON). Each received a lovely bundle of 10 ruby red fat quarters to add to their stash! The lottery is part of this year’s 40th...
by Leslie Van Patter | Oct 5, 2021 | News
Starting in October, CQA/ACC members can enjoy Canadian Quilter online! All three 2021 issues are ready for reading now. What a great way to view all the award winners of the 2021 National Juried Show and Quilt Canada concurrent shows in the Autumn issue. Plus, read...
by Leslie Van Patter | Oct 1, 2021 | News
Making a Christmas list yet? You’re in luck! A new children’s book has just been published by Albert Whitman & Co., which imagines the story behind the making of Ellen Harding Baker’s Solar System Quilt. Baker, an Iowa storekeeper’s wife, mother of seven, and...
