Five years ago, we moved from the city to cottage country. After a bidding war over our house, we purchased the only house available to us at the time. Thus, we arrived in a community that was completely new to us. That meant no familiar guild, no neighbours and no...
After seeing each winner’s work at Quilt Canada 2025, we asked how they take a quilt from good to great. In this case, Céleste Compion received the award for Excellence in Appliqué for Dutch Treat. What a thrill to receive the award for Excellence in Appliqué at the...
Legendary quilting instructor Terry Rowland describes Canadians as scrappy, as in tough and resilient. Yet, she took that message to a new level with this project. On International Quilting Day, March 17, 2025, Terry Rowland awoke to hear that the United States was...
After seeing each winners’ work at Quilt Canada 2025, we asked how they take a quilt from good to great. In this case, Millie Cumming, of Fergus, Ontario, won the Sustainability Award for her tribute to the people of Ukraine. Each quilt we create arises from a...
When Baby Joey Goodyear left Newfoundland and Labrador as an infant, his grandmother started a quilt for him. They wouldn’t meet again for 27 years, but that quilt was still waiting. On April 1, 1977, in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland, Trudy Goodyear gave birth to a...
