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How to Foster an Inclusive and Welcoming Quilt Meetings

How to Foster an Inclusive and Welcoming Quilt Meetings

by Leslie Van Patter | Jan 28, 2025 | News | 0 Comments

Ideas for ensuring your guild meetings and quilt events are more inclusive, so that everyone feels welcome and can participate fully.

How to Foster an Inclusive and Welcoming Quilt Meetings

How to Create More Inclusive Quilting Communities

by Leslie Van Patter | Jan 15, 2025 | News | 0 Comments

What is DEI? What does DEI mean in the quilting community?

Everything Comes Around Again…

Everything Comes Around Again…

by Leslie Van Patter | Dec 10, 2024 | News | 0 Comments

CQA/ACC Regional Representative Cindy Connell is building a digital archive of quilting history, starting with past issues of Canadian Quilter magazine.

CQA/ACC thanks Bill Stearman for his work on True Colours

CQA/ACC thanks Bill Stearman for his work on True Colours

by Leslie Van Patter | Dec 2, 2024 | News | 0 Comments

There is a thread running through Bill Stearman’s quilting story that speaks to his appreciation for life, and his belief in an individual’s power to inspire change.

Thank you, Peter Byrne, from CQA/ACC

Thank you, Peter Byrne, from CQA/ACC

by Leslie Van Patter | Dec 2, 2024 | News | 0 Comments

“My main focus with quilting, plain and simple, is to make show quilts and perhaps win ribbons!”

CQA/ACC thanks Jordan St. James for his work on True Colours

CQA/ACC thanks Jordan St. James for his work on True Colours

by Leslie Van Patter | Dec 2, 2024 | News | 0 Comments

“Make what makes you happy,” says Jordan St. James. “Just cut fabric and sew it back together.”

How to Foster an Inclusive and Welcoming Quilt Meetings

2SLGBTQI+—What does it mean?

by Leslie Van Patter | Oct 31, 2024 | News | 0 Comments

The first installment in a series of awareness articles to support CQA/ACC’s True Colours Quilt Along 2024.

Connecting Youth to Culture Via the Sewcase Program

Connecting Youth to Culture Via the Sewcase Program

by Leslie Van Patter | Oct 30, 2024 | News | 0 Comments

Soaring Circle, formerly I Love First Peoples, celebrates its 11th year by expanding Sewcase, a program that brings sewing labs to Indigenous schools.

Lured into Quilting by her Crafty Grandma’s Gift

Lured into Quilting by her Crafty Grandma’s Gift

by Leslie Van Patter | Oct 30, 2024 | News | 0 Comments

Margaret’s grandmother lured her into quilting by pretending to need help with some embroidery. Margaret took the bait, and is so grateful that she did.

Sustainable Quilting—Part Seven

Sustainable Quilting—Part Seven

by Leslie Van Patter | Oct 1, 2024 | News | 0 Comments

Bridget O’Flaherty invites quilters to take the Fabric Offset Challenge, and find a purpose for that unused fabric.

Three Questions for Kathy K Wylie

Three Questions for Kathy K Wylie

by Leslie Van Patter | Oct 1, 2024 | News | 0 Comments

Canadian Quilter asks Kathy K Wylie three questions about designing quilts, helping quilters make her patterns, and what she enjoys most about quilt design.

On Becoming a More Inclusive Guild

On Becoming a More Inclusive Guild

by Leslie Van Patter | Oct 1, 2024 | News | 0 Comments

As quilt guilds, we can rethink inclusion, and we can create spaces where no one ever feels unwelcome again.

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