Next Step Designs releases three blocks a week through their newsletter. There will be a CD available at the end of all the blocks if you’re late to this party 🙂 Each block is named for a Canadian woman and a one page bio explaining the role they played in Canadian history is included.
I have been keeping up! So far the blocks have been piecing only so that helps:) Here’s a photo of my blocks from the first three weeks.
Today’s timely news is that Viola Desmond will be the woman on the new Canadian $10 bill. Her block is block 9 in this quilt! What a thrill to have a connection in the present to this woman from our past. I almost want to make her block again in purple – as our $10 bill is purple:)
CBC link to more information about Viola Desmond – be sure to listen to the speech by her sister at the announcement.
Here are my three blocks for this week. I think I’m going to need to get some more red and white fabrics to keep this party going!
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| Conservators at the Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa carefully stitched repairs, and used custom-dyed modern underlay fabric for the quilt’s most fragile sections (Canadian Conservation Institute) photo from CBC website |
Another Canadian quilt that has been in the news lately is the Confederation Quilt, made by a dress maker and includes material from the gowns worn by the women at the Charlottetown Conference in 1864 which led to the creation of Canada. Here’s a link with a full shot of the quilt and another with more information about the restoration of the quilt.
I feel a year of historic quilt making – or making historic quilts {or BOTH!} – coming on!
With Joy,
Sarah V.
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