
How to Foster an Inclusive and Welcoming Quilt Meetings
Ideas for ensuring your guild meetings and quilt events are more inclusive, so that everyone feels welcome and can participate fully.

How to Create More Inclusive Quilting Communities
What is DEI? What does DEI mean in the quilting community?

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

2SLGBTQI+—What does it mean?
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
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
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
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
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
As quilt guilds, we can rethink inclusion, and we can create spaces where no one ever feels unwelcome again.