Members, Join in the 2021 Mystery Quilt Fun!

Members, Join in the 2021 Mystery Quilt Fun!

Who doesn’t love a good mystery - finding clues and solving puzzles until the big picture is revealed? If that sounds like you, you are in luck; there’s another CQA/ACC Member Mystery Quilt afoot. This fun event begins Sept. 2, 2020 when we'll post the complete fabric...

Guild Rosette Invitational Show

Guild Rosette Invitational Show

June 16 to 19, 2021 International Centre, Toronto ON Seize your chance to join a Canada-wide quilt exhibit! The CQA/ACC will hold a Guild Rosette Invitational Quilt Show as part of Quilt Canada 2021, in Toronto ON. The quilts will be exhibited from June 16 to 19,...

Make Your Event Listings Pop!

Make Your Event Listings Pop!

What’s the saying, a picture’s worth a thousand words? Canada’s quilting community has a rich story to tell and the new website shares lots of great images that inspire our visitors and bring our maker community to life. Makers look forward to attending special events...

Quilt Studio Safety

Quilt Studio Safety

As the world of quilting opens up to include many forms of textile art, several of us explore ways to incorporate new and different materials in our work. I began with creating highly embellished art quilts. Since then, I have moved now into an art practice which...

Elements and Principles of Design

Elements and Principles of Design

Principles of Design The term has different connotations in different fields. Informally, “a design” refers to a plan for the construction of an object (as in architectural blueprints and sewing or quilting patterns) and “to design” refers to making a plan. However,...