Version 6.04
10 November 2023
COMMEMORATIVE RED CROSS QUILTS
RESEARCH GROUP
MEMBERS
Maxine March
Jackie Maxwell
ABOUT THE RESEARCH GROUP
Objectives
We are two friends, retired from our respective professions, both experienced quilters and members of The Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles. Our mutual interest in Canadian Red Cross quilts has developed into a research project.
Our aims are:
- To rescue as many as we can and form a joint collection
- To raise the profile of these quilts both in the quilting world and with the general public, by giving talks to interested groups and finding exhibition space for our collection
- To identify quilts in private hands and in museum collections and document them
- To collect stories of the makers and recipients
The Research Group Asks:
- Do you have a Red Cross quilt, or a wartime quilt?
- Have you a story to tell about a wartime quilt?
- Have you seen one in a museum?
You can help to record the history of these quilts by contacting a member of the Canadian Red Cross Quilt Research Group.
You can contact the Research Group here.
STOP PRESS: The quilts return home - see where they have gone!
CANADIAN RED CROSS QUILT
RESEARCH GROUP
