Peaon: The 2022 Mystery Quilt Revealed
Cristina De Miranda (@shipsandviolins) shared her version of Paeon, the pattern she designed for CQA/ACC’s 2022 Mystery Quilt.
Rayside Balfour Quilting and Stitchery Guild: – Always learning something
We are enjoying time with members of our Quilt Guild working on the in-club quilt and workshops. There is always something new to learn.
Huron Perth Quilt Guild: – Happy to keep the craft we love alive
Trying to stay connected and furthering our quilting journey our tech and program people sated our appetites with a combination, hybrid and virtual meetings and lectures. We continued to make our block of the month with Shirley making pieced blocks. Currently making...
Guild: Central Alberta Quilters’ Guild – CAQG Annual Quilt Show in May, 2022 cancelled
With great reluctance, the CAQG Quilt Show Committee has cancelled all plans to host the CAQG Annual Quilt Show in May, 2022. Unfortunately, the minimum number of vendor registrations were not received by the due date. Feedback confirmed that this was largely due to...
Guild: Rayside Balfour Quilting and Stitchery Guild – Back With Quilting Friends
We are glad to be back with out quilting friends working on block of the month lottery and cuddle quilts. Danielle organized a silent auction to raise money for the Infant Food Bank.
Black History Month 2022
CQA/ACC Honours Black History Month 2022. A statement and invitation to make a Log Cabin block or quilt to honour Black History Month.
Her Quilt of Many Colours
Myla Borden prefers that people cozy up under one of her quilts to having it hang on a wall. Their colours and stories are meant to spread warmth, be used and loved, instead of passed by.
Stitching Community: African Canadian Quilts from Southern Ontario
It is very interesting to see how quilting was for so many years a part of this community, then faded, and now shines bright again, still telling stories, keeping people connected once more.
Buxton’s Forget-Me-Not Block of Honor Quilt
Skilled quilters from the Black settlement of Buxton, ON, created fundraising quilts like this Forget-Me-Not Block of Honor quilt, to help community members in financial distress.
Deep Connections
Letitia Fraser’s paintings are centred around her experiences as an African Nova Scotian woman.
Quilting Activism
The work of the Social Justice Sewing Academy, and how Canadian quilters can get involved.
The Sew & Sew Program: Reconciliation and Action
Sew & Sew is a program of I Love First Peoples that creates sewing labs in northern schools for use by students and the communities.