Come join us at the International Centre, 6900 Airport Road, Mississauga
This quilt will be hanging in the Quilt show hall during that time.
I will try to upload some newer pictures for your enjoyment.
Deborah Sherman will presenting a lecture about this quilt on Thursday, June 19 at 10 am.
Deborrah Sherman was the publisher/editor/entire staff of Canada Quilts Magazine from July of 1990 until 1997. Between 1990 and 1992, the magazine, in collaboration with the National Capital Commission, organized the creation of The Quilt for Canada to celebrate the nation’s 125th anniversary. Canadian quilters and non-quilters contributed 464 blocks on the theme What Canada means to me, which were then bordered in a traditional Attic Windows setting and assembled into nine sections. Each section was sent to a different part of the country where quilt groups and guilds held public quilting bees. In the end, more than 3,000 Canadians had a hand in making The Quilt for Canada—A View Through Canada’s Windows, which was unveiled in Canada House as part of the 125 Canada Day celebrations in Ottawa. It then traveled to quilt shows, needlework festivals, and even department store displays across the country until 1994.
Although it has had a few public outings since, the 15′ x 17′ quilt lives in a cedar chest, and a home needs to be found for it. Let us know if you know of an organization would like to have this quilt.
