True Colours Workshop with Bill Stearman - In Person Only
Part of the CQA/ACC True Colours Quilt Along 2025. This QAL celebrates diversity and inclusion, with a focus on support for 2SLGBTQI+ communities leading up to Pride Month in June 2025. The goal is to ensure everyone feels welcome in the quilting circle.
Join Bill Stearman in a celebration of diversity and inclusion as he guides us through creating a block from the True Colours QAL program hosted by the Canadian Quiltes Association and sponsered by Northcott Fabrics. The goal of these workshops is for everyone to have fun while working together in creating 'True Colours' quilt tops that can be turned into quilts to donate in support of 2SLGBTQ+ folks locally! Blocks created from this class will be put together to donate to youth and adults within the 2SLGBTQI+ community. Kate's Open Quilt Studio will quilt the quilt tops made from the class.
Learn more about the CQA True Colours Quilt Along here: https://canadianquilter.com/truecoloursqal/
Includes patterns, fabric requirements, and more information
Learn more about Bill Stearman here: https://billstearman.ca/
Located at the Shediac Multipurpose Center
| Skill Level: | Beginner |
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| Materials Included: | Solid FQ Sponsored by Northcott Fabrics |
| Requirements: | Sewing machine and basic sewing kit |
| Instructor Bio: | Bill Stearman is a Queer quilt-maker living and working in Picton, Ontario. He didn’t come to quilt-making by choice. In 2013, while looking for an alternative to mind numbing pain medication after a serious leg injury, someone suggested that he try making a quilt. It sounded strange, but he gave it a try and discovered that when he sews, he doesn’t feel pain. Over three hundred quilts later, he is still at it. While Stearman describes himself as being self-taught, in reality, he sought out every master quilter whose work he admired, travelling across North America and Australia to learn from them. The friendships that he has developed through this process continue to inspire and motivate him. And the influences of those teachers still echo in his work. Stearman has lectured with his well-known ‘BackPack Show’ across Canada, and now via Zoom throughout the world. He teaches locally at Loyalist College Summer Arts Program. Stearman’s quilts have been juried into countless shows across North America and in the UK. He has won several major awards. Stearman’s work frequently deals with topics not normally associated with quilts. Sexual abuse, depression, illness, racism, sexuality and gender all have been subjects in Bill’s bold, striking, and often moving pieces. In 2021, Stearman’s work took a dramatic shift. During the peak of Covid, he was diagnosed with terminal Liver Cancer. Over the course of seven months, he went from that diagnosis, through an intense battery of testing and cancer treatment to ‘buy time’, all leading up to what he views as miraculous surgery where he received a new liver from his daughter and a life expectancy increased by over twenty years. All of this dramatically changed Bill’s life and his outlook on life. He works with a renewed intensity and is driven by a desire to change the world; to make it a better place; to speak his truth, even if his voice shakes. |
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