I have loved linen since I was 12 years old. It was the year that I spent three summer months in Italy with relatives. It wasn’t my first time nor was it my last, but that particular visit in Aosta turned out to be particularly memorable. That year I really got to know my grandparents, […]
Category Archives: Quilting
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[columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] What are these different schools of the craft? I am, relatively speaking, new to quilting, and have learned that there is a heck of a lot more going on in quilting than when I made my first machine pieced and quilted quilt more than 10 years ago, and then left quilting […]
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[columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] It’s hard to imagine that summer could be warmed or brightened anymore, but designer Colleen Blackwell McMahon has found a way. Her patio quilts can be thrown nonchalantly over a wicker chair or draped over a picnic table or bundled onto a hammock to add another shot of colour or a […]
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Some of the most glorious images in the world are created in stained glass, so why not create a “window” on your own world? Here is an opportunity to create your own “rose window” albeit not quite like the famous rose windows found in some of the world’s most beautiful cathedrals. The stained glass technique […]
Where are the Easter Quilts? – The Quilt Studio: it’s about sew much more than just quilting Easter sure snuck up on me this year. As I scramble to decorate at the last minute and get the house ready for company I realize I don’t have an “Easter” quilt. I have quilts or quilted wallhangings […]
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Incorporating her double heritage, knowledge and experience into quilt making is what sets Alice Olsen Williams’ work apart from other quilters. A prolific and gifted artist, Alice has been making quilts since 1980 when she took a summer course in the art. Since that time, she has used quilting to inspire, teach and soothe. Her […]
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[columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] the guilded edge The countryside was a profusion of colour the weekend of September 20-21, 2008 when the women of the Island Quilters’ Guild hosted a two day exhibit, The Hawberry Autumn Quilt Show. Amid the excitement, and a sigh of relief, the last stitch was in place, the pressing and […]
Read more in our Spring 2015 issue. Designed by Cheryl Stranges Product & Event Specialist husqvarnaviking.com seecherylsew.blogspot.com
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Read more in our Spring 2015 issue. Designed by Wendy Burton The Quilt Store 17817 Leslie Street, Unit 40 Newmarket, Ontario L3Y 8C6 www.thequiltstore.ca 905.853.7001
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In the fall of 1998, shortly after moving back to Toronto, I was invited to a programming meeting for Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts at the Steelworkers Hall in downtown Toronto. It was there that I first heard about the disaster that happened at Hogg’s Hollow in 1960 and how it changed […]