by Joanna Dermenjian | Apr 10, 2023 | Children
An article last week by Helen Surgenor of CBC Radio headlined: “Young people are starting to knit and crochet for mental health.” The article echoes a similar theme to a wartime article from The Winnipeg Tribune on August 3, 1942, that makes suggestions for helping...
by Joanna Dermenjian | Jan 8, 2023 | Article, History
In my investigation into the quilt-making by Canadian women during WW2, I am on the look-out for references to the materials used in charitable production of quilts and garments for Britain and Europe. I found one newspaper article that stated that the Red Cross urged...
by Joanna Dermenjian | Oct 14, 2022 | Article, History, Research
The Toronto Daily Star from Saturday, August 31, 1940, includes an article that headlines: “Rain Fails to Halt C.N.E. Quilting Bee”. Toronto Daily Star, August 31, 1940 I found this paragraph in a 2011 publication called ‘Stanley Barracks: Toronto’s Military Legacy’:...
by Joanna Dermenjian | Aug 30, 2022 | Article, History, Research
PART 1 In Canada, the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) in Toronto is our nation’s largest fair. It has been in operation since 1879 and has opened annually on the same site for several weeks each year, with just a few exceptions because of war, plagues...
by Joanna Dermenjian | Jun 13, 2022 | Article
This article is published and beautifully illustrated in Canadian Quilter – Summer 2022 edition When I stitch by hand, whether quilting, embroidering or crocheting, I often listen to ‘Haptic and Hue’, a podcast about the history of cloth and textiles and the...
