What inspired Wanda Lumsden to create the heart-rending Best in Show wall hanging entitled After the Fires? Its first panel also stars as our cover photo. See the other awe-inspiring quilts and their summaries from the top three of each category at the National Juried Show. Read about the winners of the TrendTex and JN Harper Youth Challenges, including a 12-year-old dynamo.
Sue Sherman recounts how she spilled dye, then tea, on a quilt that went on to win top honours in the Innovation category at Quilt Canada.
Treat yourself to a free pattern of the Clearwater Quilt by Erin Kroeker of The Blanket Statement.
Next, we dive into making people feel welcome via the True Colours Quilt Along and express their Canadian pride with their projects.
Get an update of the Soaring Circle and its SewCase program that takes stitching into classrooms at Indigenous schools.
Finally, get out a tissue to read about a birth mother’s mother for the baby she never met – until she gave him a quilt decades later.
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