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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Read stories about Reconciliation Quilts made to honour children who never returned from Canada’s residential schools, the survivors, and their families.