After seeing each winner’s work at Quilt Canada 2025, we asked how they take a quilt from good to great. These snippets of advice come from new and repeat quilt show winners. Quilt Canada, 2025 was a big year for me for several reasons. For the first time, I hosted a...
The Bomb Girls Legacy Foundation seeks blocks for a national quilt to commemorate factory workers during the Second World War. These individuals supported the fight for peace on the home front, by working in wartime factories across Canada. Who are the bomb girls? The...
After seeing each winner’s work at Quilt Canada 2025, we asked how they take designing a quilt from good to great. In this case, R. Leslie Forbes’ Lamplights in the Gloaming earned third place in Art | Landscapes and Still Life. Light, shadow and colour...
After seeing each winner’s work at Quilt Canada 2025, we asked how they take a quilt from good to great. In this case, Diane Paquin Provost of Montreal won the prize for Excellence in Threadwork Using Aurifil Thread for HIT or MISS. I made this quilt for the...
The Comfort Quilt program, run by the Stitches from the Heart Quilt Guild, reached an amazing milestone in September. The group donated its 2,000th quilt since its inception in 2005. As all quilters know, wrapping yourself in a quilt is like getting a hug. Quilts...
