Marianne Parsons creates 3D owls from materials sourced from local thrift stores. For almost 50 years, I’ve shopped the local thrift shops, gleaning interesting textures and fibres that spoke to me. Curtains, men’s suits, saris … nothing is off the table. Clerks often...
Quilt Blocks for the New Millenium The Quilt-Along for 2022 is a Re-Run of the 12 original Quilt Blocks for the New Millenium, first published in the Canadian Quilter in 1999-2000. The blocks were introduced by Dusty Newey, a past President of CQA/ACC and long-time...
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...
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...
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,...
