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...
After seeing each winners’ work at Quilt Canada 2025, we asked how they take a quilt from good to great. In this case, Carol Chenier, of Sarnia, Ontario, won the Viewers’ Choice Award for her tribute to reading, healing and quilting. In 2000, during a difficult time...
In 2011, Sarah Bass was visiting with her great-aunt Donna Carswell in Campbellford, Ontario when she received three bags of scraps arising from Eaton’s and Simpsons department stores. That led to a cross-country investigation into this barely documented phenomenon....
