Canadian Quilters Association News
The CQA/ACC magazine ‘The Canadian Quilter’ is a quarterly one which focuses
on Canadian designers, what Canadian quilters are doing and the presentation of
information of interest to quilters. Your guild probably submits news to your Regional Representative for their report for it as well. We have spaces for 15 representatives (see the list at: http://www.canadianquilter.com/contact-us/regionalrepresentatives..php ), but there is one vacancy at the present – Coastal British
Columbia. If you live in this area and are interested in sending us your quilting
news, please do contact our vice-president, Jackie White, at [email protected] . We’d love to have a CQA/ACC member to represent this area.
Another interesting facet of the magazine is that each issue has a theme and any Canadian quilter is welcome to submit any size article or story for consideration. The Spring issue deadline has passed, but the
theme for the Summer 2014 issue is ‘Different’. As you can guess, this theme could apply to different methods for approaching block or quilt making, different ways that you have found to meeting with other quilters,
different places and times you have held workshops or retreats,...and so on. The deadline for the Summer
issue is Apr. 1, 2014 (no joke!). The following issue’s theme is ‘Tell Your Story’ and the deadline is July 1,
2014. We know from our own guild meetings, that almost every quilter’s story is unique – for each quilt and
for their quilt adventure. Send your stories to [email protected]
We invite your guild and your members to submit their stories to our magazine as well as to your Regional
Representative.
Craftsy Learning
Both Rolanda and Jackie W. sent in notices about this website this month so it must be good! Craftsy offers
short courses on many crafts: sewing, cooking, crochet, knitting, quilting, and much more…. And, to entice
new joiners, they offer free classes in all of these crafts from time to time. It is well worth checking out the
free classes if you are interested in learning something. Are you too busy to do a class being offered right
now? Well, that’s ok because with Craftsy, once you have enrolled in a class you have FREE access to that
class over and over again (as long as you remember your login and password!). The classes are offered in
parts on video segments and you can ask the teacher questions.
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