Month: November 2008


  • Living Healing Quilt ProjectPromoting Healing – One Stitch at a Time This post is part of the Living Healing Quilt Project that honours the strength, courage, and commitment of Indian Residential School Survivors. This quilt block is from Quilt 1 – Schools of Shame.

  • A friend and I, along with her mom and several other friends, will be getting together in the new year on a regular basis to make quilts for Victoria’s Quilts Canada. We need fabric. While we’ll all be donating fabric from our own stashes, I thought it would be extra special to have fabric donated…

  • Fran Kakegamick

    Living Healing Quilt ProjectPromoting Healing – One Stitch at a Time This post is part of the Living Healing Quilt Project that honours the strength, courage, and commitment of Indian Residential School Survivors. This quilt block is from Quilt 1 – Schools of Shame. The moccasins represent the child who was taken away from her…

  • Living Healing Quilt ProjectPromoting Healing – One Stitch at a Time This post is part of the Living Healing Quilt Project that honours the strength, courage, and commitment of Indian Residential School Survivors. This quilt block is from Quilt 1 – Schools of Shame. This painting speaks of the abuse that took place in the…

  • Last Day to Vote

    Today is the last day to vote in the Falling Leaves Photo Contest. A new contest, with a twist, will be announced later today (or tomorrow).

  • Living Healing Quilt ProjectPromoting Healing – One Stitch at a Time This post is part of the Living Healing Quilt Project that honours the strength, courage, and commitment of Indian Residential School Survivors. This quilt block is from Quilt 1 – Schools of Shame. I am a residential school survivor. My meaning for this quilt…

  • If someone wants to know what they can make ME for the holidays, here’s a great idea. (Just remember I have tiny wrists and I’m partial to purple .) The Pincushion Cuff Tutorial is well written with excellent photos to help along the way. There are lots of great sewing tips on that site, browse…

  • Diane Bear

    Living Healing Quilt ProjectPromoting Healing – One Stitch at a Time This post is part of the Living Healing Quilt Project that honours the strength, courage, and commitment of Indian Residential School Survivors. This quilt block is from Quilt 1 – Schools of Shame. Even tho’ some of us didn’t go to residential school, we…

  • Here’s a quick and easy tutorial to make six placemats. You’ll also need the Stack and Cut Crazy Squares tutorial too.

  • Living Healing Quilt ProjectPromoting Healing – One Stitch at a Time Back in July when I was doing the month-long feature of charity quilts, I wrote about the Living Healing Quilt Project. This was a call to those affected by the Canadian Indian Residential Schools to submit a quilt block. The Living Healing Quilt Project…