CQA/ACC Honours Black History Month 2022. A statement and invitation to make a Log Cabin block or quilt to honour Black History Month.

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.

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.

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.

Letitia Fraser’s paintings are centred around her experiences as an African Nova Scotian woman.

The work of the Social Justice Sewing Academy, and how Canadian quilters can get involved.

Sew & Sew is a reconciliation program of I Love First Peoples that creates sewing labs in northern schools for use by students and the communities.

Cindy Connell spoke with Vanessa Génier, to learn more about Quilts for Survivors, and to get to know the woman whose vision fuels this remarkable and important project.