Millbrook Neeedlers – Piecing Lives Together
Millbrook Neeedlers present Piecing Lives Together Friday May 9th ( 10am-6pm ) and Saturday May 10 (10 am-4pm).
Navigating Gender Pronouns
Learning about inclusive language to help ensure quilt groups, guilds, and events are welcoming places for everyone.
Next Stop Englehart Quilters Guild – A Number of Projects on the Go
The Next Stop Englehart Quilters Guild 2024/2025 have a number of projects on the go which includes a 16 month Friendship Block challenge, monthly BOM, demonstrations and our annual yard sale. We are hosting our first Quilt Show since Covid on the Mother’s Day weekend...
Sustainable Quilting—Part Eight
Bridget O’Flaherty helps quilters set goals and build a plan of action for a sustainable quilting practice.
Canada’s Forgotten Artifacts: 1967 Centennial Quilts
Judy Lyons, quilt appraiser, collects and researches quilts made in Canada between 1867 and 1967, and tells the stories of the women who made them.
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.
