When you’re a quilt ghost instead of one under a sheet, you can go outside in any season. At times, when you venture outside, your batting gets caught in branches. Meanwhile, your lightweight friends find the cool weather gives them a chill, not a thrill. That’s what...
In the midst of a scorcher of a summer, it seems fun to take a look at some temperature quilts. In 2022, Kim Caskey taught a class on this approach at Quilts Canada. This inspired some guilds to make it into a challenge the following year. What is a Temperature Quilt?...
As a Red Cross volunteer, Wanda Lumsden has seen the effects of wildfires in the exhausted faces of the people who have lost it all. For 12 years, she helped evacuees register and connect with essential services and equipment. Likewise, she has watched the forest...
When Joann Fabrics announced its bankruptcy filing in February, it caught its customers off guard. How could this industry giant, who has lured quilters across the U.S. border for decades, possibly fail? The company sought bankruptcy protection, saying that consumers...
Who knew that a $4 box of scraps would lead to a love of quilting and a new career? In the summer of 1994, I saw a piece of grey fabric that was ideal for a pair of shorts. However, lurking in the layer below, a mishmash of cottons called out to me to use them too. Up...
