New Quilt Techniques Earn First Place Ribbon

New Quilt Techniques Earn First Place Ribbon

After seeing each winners’ work at Quilt Canada 2025, we asked how they take a quilt from good to great. In this case, Joan Maguire of Sarnia, Ontario, Audubon Christmas, which topped the category for wall quilts arising from patterns. She shares her quilt techniques...
Inspiration for an Award-Winning Quilt

Inspiration for an Award-Winning Quilt

​After seeing each winner’s work at Quilt Canada 2025, we asked how they take a quilt from good to great. In this case, Judy Garden’s Maze of Vines and Roses won top honours in the traditional quilt category. ​Inspiration for a quilt can come from many sources:...
Finding a Vibrant Quilting Community

Finding a Vibrant Quilting Community

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...
Dutch Treat Quilt Lessons

Dutch Treat Quilt Lessons

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...
Canada United in Scraps

Canada United in Scraps

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...