Buxton’s Forget-Me-Not Block of Honor Quilt

Buxton’s Forget-Me-Not Block of Honor Quilt

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...
Deep Connections in Black Communities

Deep Connections in Black Communities

My inspiration to paint on a quilted background came from my grandmother, Rosella Fraser, Sr., also known as Mommay. She had 15 children and raised 17 in the community of North Preston, NS. During the 1950s and 60s, when all her children were born, my family lived in...
Quilting Activism

Quilting Activism

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...
The Sew & Sew Program: Reconciliation and Action

The Sew & Sew Program: Reconciliation and Action

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...
An Interview with Vanessa Génier

An Interview with Vanessa Génier

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...